An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

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

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

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

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.