A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.