Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

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

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

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

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

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.