Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

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

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

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

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A Bicycle Path in the Sky.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.