One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.