This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.