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The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

"Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament."

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

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

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.