One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Political debates in a fabulous Pasadena castle.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

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

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

It would be a crime to miss it.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.