After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

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

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

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

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.