Point Arena, California
Bowling Ball Beach
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Santa Monica, California
A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.
Pasadena, California
A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.
Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Oakland, California
Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.
Calistoga, California
The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.
San Francisco, California
Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Glen Ellen, California
The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.
Big Sur, California
This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.
San Diego, California
An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.
Palomar Mountain, California
A world-class observatory in the California desert.
Murphys, California
A popular tourist cave with a dark past.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Los Angeles, California
These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.
Beverly Hills, California
Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.
Agua Dulce, California
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Trona, California
One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.