Niland, California
East Jesus
An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.
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Niland, California
An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.
Monterey, California
This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.
Los Angeles, California
A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.
Santa Clarita, California
This Southern Californian Conservation Center is home to singing and howling apes.
Newport Beach, California
One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.
Avalon, California
Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.
Moss Beach, California
A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.
Palo Alto, California
The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.
West Hollywood, California
An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."
Big Bear Lake, California
In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.
Jamestown, California
Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.
Berkeley, California
A celebration of once forgotten materials.
San Francisco, California
The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Palo Alto, California
A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.
Santa Barbara, California
The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.
El Segundo, California
The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.
Los Gatos, California
Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
San Francisco, California
Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.
Inyo County, California
A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.
Peoria, Illinois
The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.
Roscoe, Illinois
This deceivingly ordinary warehouse hides an enormous collection of pop culture treasures.
Calipatria, California
At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.