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Oldest building in California still in use.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

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

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

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

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.