Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.