A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

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

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.