A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.