One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

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

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

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

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Traversing these canyons, visitors can take in stunning views and glimpses of the region's history.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.