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The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

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

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

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

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.