Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Often mistaken for an office building, inside this venue is an amazing collection of Native Alaskan art.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

An ancient mineral hot spring sits at the middle of this combination cultural center and spa.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

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