A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

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

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

Southern California’s Theme Park Beginnings.

The Mighty Wurlitzer organ continues to belt out the tunes at downtown El Segundo's historic home for silent and classic movies.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.