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Cajon Pass on Route 66 (Flickr/JoulesVintage)
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Hesperia, California

Summit Inn Restaurant

The last Americana on Route 66.

Giant Scissors
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Los Angeles, California

Giant Scissors

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Ventura Oil Refinery. (tunnelbug/Flickr)
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Ventura, California

Ventura Oil Refinery

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Taxidermy
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South Pasadena, California

The Curio Emporium

Delve into a wealth of oddities, antiques, and taxidermy treasures.

Laffin Sal
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El Cerrito, California

Playland Not At the Beach

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

The Bone Room
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Albany, California

The Bone Room

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

The Southern California Medical Museum
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Pomona, California

The Southern California Medical Museum

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Mosaic water feature using recycled objects and glass marbles. (Victoria's Last Resort)
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Cambria, California

Victoria's Last Resort

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

Gothic Rose Antiques & Collectibles.
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Placerville, California

Gothic Rose Antiques & Curiosities

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The Lava House at sunset, with explorers.
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Belvedere Tiburon, California

Lava House

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Knapp’s Castle
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Santa Barbara, California

Knapp’s Castle

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Lemon Grove Girl
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San Diego, California

Lemon Grove Mummies

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Lookout from plaque, featuring Fiesta Island across the water to the left, where most of the race took place.

San Diego, California

Birthplace of Modern Triathlon

In September 1974, a small group of athletes completed the first modern triathlon event in San Diego's Mission Bay.

Lockheed Martin Solar Astrophysics Laboratory Lobby

Palo Alto, California

Lockheed Martin Solar Astrophysics Laboratory Lobby

Gander at model satellites and telescopes in this scientific lobby.

Rare foggy day

Ojai, California

Piedra Blanca

Unusual white sandstone formations in the Los Padres National Forest.

A model of one of Gilmore's aircraft, the Bat Wing Monoplane

Grass Valley, California

Lyman Gilmore Middle School

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

Elfin Forest Boardwalk.

Baywood-Los Osos, California

El Moro Elfin Forest Natural Area

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

1901 Lawn Bowling Club

Pasadena, California

Pasadena Lawn Bowling Club

A commonwealth favorite in the heart of Pasadena.

The type of plane that was found in the reservoir

Chula Vista, California

Lower Otay Reservoir

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

Pasadena Star-News Building

Pasadena, California

The Pasadena Star-News Building

A newspaper building that made radio history.

George Hicks Fancher Monument

Merced, California

George Hicks Fancher Monument

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.

The Commodore John Drake Sloat Monument

Monterey, California

Sloat Monument

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

Colton Hall Museum

Monterey, California

Colton Hall Museum

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

Swan Levine House

Grass Valley, California

Swan Levine House

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

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