Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.