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A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.