The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

A commonwealth favorite in the heart of Pasadena.

Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

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

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The only museum and archive west of the Mississippi that is dedicated to the study of Abraham Lincoln.