Barstow, California
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Barstow, California
Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.
Stanford, California
A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.
Pasadena, California
An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Solvang, California
Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.
Goleta, California
A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.
Calistoga, California
This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.
San Francisco, California
Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.
Carlsbad, California
This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.
Oakland, California
International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.
Davis, California
This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.
San Jose, California
The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.
Pomona, California
This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.
Colma, California
The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.
Alameda, California
Antiques by the Bay.
Palo Alto, California
This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.
Chatsworth, California
Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.
Culver City, California
Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.
Los Angeles, California
"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."
Berkeley, California
The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.
San Diego, California
North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.
Sausalito, California
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
La Habra Heights, California
About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.
Glendale, California
An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.