This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

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

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

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

It would be a crime to miss it.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

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

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

The freeway that never was.

Site of the first official transatlantic wireless communications.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

An unsolved murder victim's grave which may or may not contain her body.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.