The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

A large instrument played by the wind.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

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

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

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.

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.