This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.