"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.

Pizza joint known for labor-inducing salad dressing.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.