Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Because there's no place like home.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

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

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.