Inyo County, California
Badwater Basin
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
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Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Los Angeles, California
Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
San Francisco, California
In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
Los Angeles, California
Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.
Los Angeles, California
The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
Los Angeles, California
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Los Angeles, California
The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.
Los Angeles, California
Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Los Angeles, California
This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.