The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

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

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.