The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

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

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

One of the oldest of its kind.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.