A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

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.

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.

An unexpected connection to Chicago awaits visitors on an island just off the California coast.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

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

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.