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Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

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

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.