Palomar Mountain, California
Palomar Observatory
A world-class observatory in the California desert.
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Palomar Mountain, California
A world-class observatory in the California desert.
Los Angeles, California
Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.
San Francisco, California
Half of a house.
Los Angeles, California
The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.
Oakland, California
Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.
Riverside, California
Mexican food and folk art.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Los Angeles, California
An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Landers, California
A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Johannesburg, California
The liveliest ghost town in the state.
Glendora, California
The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
Newport Beach, California
Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.
Byron, California
A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
Fremont, California
Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.
San Francisco, California
The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.
San Francisco, California
A monument to the love people have for their pets.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.
Los Angeles, California
Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.