Places Seabiscuit Wants to Go

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Nestled in Coachella Valley, this museum transports guests from the Mesozoic Era, to the land of Egyptian kings.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.