The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.