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Bombay Beach, California. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bombay Beach, California

Bombay Beach

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The shiniest beach you'll ever see.

Fort Bragg, California

Glass Beach

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Trona Pinnacles, San Bernardino County, CA 9/21/2016

Trona, California

Trona Pinnacles

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The barge seen during sunset.

Castroville, California

Sauce Bros Barge

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Cars for scale

Castroville, California

World's Largest Artichoke Statue

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The lab was fictionalized by John Steinbeck as "Western Biological Laboratory"

Monterey, California

Doc Ricketts' Lab

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Fossil Falls, 3/13/2021

Inyo County, California

Fossil Falls

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Some remains of an original Ballarat building

Inyo County, California

Ballarat Ghost Town

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Burro Schmidt Tunnel

Randsburg, California

Burro Schmidt Tunnel

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

Eureka Dunes

California

Eureka Dunes

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Bishop Tuff

Mono County, California

Crowley Lake Columns

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

They were built in 1979.

San Francisco, California

Esmeralda Slide Park

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Abandoned fortifications at Fort Miley

San Francisco, California

Fort Miley Batteries

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch

Oro Grande, California

Elmer Long's Bottle Tree Ranch

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

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