Places curiouser 54cc2706 Wants to Go

Go deep on these fascinating fish, and get a bonus lesson on the importance of marine conservation.

Far out of its comfort zone, this sequoia was planted as a symbol of the connection between Visalia and its neighboring national park.

Wander through desolate oil fields littered with rigs.

The last family-owned, single-screen moviehouse in La La Land.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

A bust of the entertainer and politician sits in an alcove at the Palm Springs Airport.

The first radio telescope dedicated to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.

A whimsical display of massive metal sculptures made from recycled materials.

The only remaining hotel on the 1860s Henness Pass route over the Sierra Nevada is being restored.

Pay your respects to three butterfat queens.

A gathering of green robots at the Googleplex.

A dramatic coastline that’s home to a rare pine tree.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.

A Native American petroglyph, the site of an emigrants' waystation, and the ruins of an early 20th-century sheep camp are all found at this crossroads.

Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.

An abandoned early 20th-century gold mine in a spectacular setting overlooking Bridgeport Valley and the Sierra Nevada.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

This public Skyspace created by artist James Turrell for his alma mater puts on a show every day at sunrise and sunset.

A quirky little oasis in the California desert where rescue animals abound.

A striking eight-story-high obelisk perched on a coastal California cliff.