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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.