While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

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 raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.