The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

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

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

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

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

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.