The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

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

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

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

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

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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.

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

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.