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Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

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

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A little barn in the middle of the city preserving Hollywood treasures since 1985.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

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

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.