A blast from the past in central San Diego.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.