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The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

These colossal desert barcodes have been fine-tuning spy satellites for decades.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

A 250 million-year-old rock formation has earned a rather unique nickname.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

A repository of Pasadena history.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.