A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

Half of a house.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Mexican food and folk art.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.