This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

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.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.