Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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.

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

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