Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

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

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

A 26-foot-tall jackrabbit celebrates the past and future of the Southwest.

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