The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Tucked away behind an unassuming set of shops is a must-see series of stunning murals.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

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

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.