This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

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

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

Because there's no place like home.

A forgotten tribute to a South American hero hidden in a cluster of traffic islands.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.