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| 1. | 120 miles of horseback riding trails in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park | 2. | Buck Owens' Crystal Palace museum and concert hall in Bakersfield |
| 3. | Selma, "Raisin Capital of the World" | 4. | A herd of 400 buffalo on Catalina Island |
| 5. | 21 historic missions | 6. | 700 Wineries (and counting) |
| 7. | Heinhold's First and Last Chance Saloon in Oakland where Jack London began writing The Sea Wolf and Call of the Wild. | 8. | 21 Locomotives on exhibit at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento |
| 9. | The 21 foot tall pink marble pyramid in Felicity, the self-proclaimed Official Center of the World | 10. | Cactus King Nursery, Encinitas, the largest retail cactus nursery on the West Coast |
| 11. | Furnace Creek Inn, built in Death Valley in 1927, boasts a spring-fed swimming pool and the lowest grass golf course in the world, 214 feet below sea level | 12. | Big Kitchen Café, San Diego, the self proclaimed center of the universe and where Whoopi Goldberg once washed dishes |
| 13. | About 300 caves in Modoc County's Lava Beds National Monument | 14. | Around 20,000 gray whales pass our shores every December - April |
| 15. | Tien Hau Temple in San Francisco, the oldest Chinese temple in the United States | 16. | Certified farmers' markets in 350 cities and towns |
| 17. | More than 4,000 windmills in San Gorgonio Pass (they produce enough electricity to power Palm Springs and the rest of the Coachella Valley | 18. | Stockton's Moses Rodgers House, onetime home to a former slave, who was the first to successfully drill for oil in the region |
| 19. | Exeter's giant outdoor nurals preserve the city's history and culture | 20. | 20 official wildlife viewing areas |
| 21. | The Delta, near Rio Vista, one of the top 12 windsurfing aras in the world, according to aficionados | 22. | Vichy Springs Resort & Inn, home to the only naturally carbonated hot springs in North America |
| 23. | Three drive-through redwood trees along Highway 101 between Laytonville and Klamath | 24. | 2,500 year-old seagrass specimens at the Antelope Valley Indian Museum, Lancaster |
| 25. | Birthplace of the African-American holiday Kwanazz, created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karega, California State University, Long Beach | 26. | The largest permanent archery range in North America, at the ARCO Olympic Training Center, Chula Vista |
| 27. | Cerro Gordo Mines Ghost Town, near Keeler, once the richest city in the U.S. | 28. | St. Helena, western home of the Culinary Institute of America |
| 29. | Gold Mountain Ski Area, near Graeagle, oldest reported sport-skiing area in the western hemisphere | 30. | 90 types of mammals in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, including 10 kinds of bats. |
| 31. | The Tomales Bay Oyster Company, shucking Pacifics since 1909 | 32. | Musso & Grank's Grill, Hollywood's oldest restaurant |
| 33. | Some 26,000 tons of dates, harvested annually in Riverside and Imperial Counties | 34. | 9,000 barrels of beer a week from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chico |
| 35. | 160 rooms and more than 10,0000 windows in San Jose's Winchester Mystery House | 36. | Doris Day's Cypress Inn in Carmel, where pets are welcome at afternoon tea and overnight |
| 37. | 45 snow resorts offering downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ice skating and more. | 38. | More than 3,500 works by children in the International Child Art Collection, Los Angeles |
| 39. | 2,425 feet of falling water at Josemite Falls, the longest drop in the United States | 40. | The 20 million-year old Torrey Sands Cliffs, La Jolla |
| 41. | 840 species of plants on the Channel Islands, including 20 kinds of lupines | 42. | Huntington Beach, 8.5 miles of uninterrupted strands of pristine beach. |
| 43. | World's tallest living tree (367.5 feet), in the Montgomery Woods State Reserve in Mendocino County | 44. | Ballard Inn, Ballard, chosen by American Historic Inns as one of the top 10 "most romantic inns" in the U.S. |
| 45. | . Diamond Valley Lake, near Hemet, where more than 70 species of Ice Age fossils were unearthed during excavation. | 46. | 20 million acres of National Forest and 50 significant wilderness areas for backpacking |
| 47. | California Coastal National Monument, established January 2000, running along the entire California coast and extending out for 12 miles | 48. | Kaweah Post Office, Tulare, the smallest post office still in operation. Only 10 feet wide, it's state historic landmark 389 |
| 49. | Lunch Box Museum, in Firebaugh, displays 420 American-made metal lunch boxes and more than 300 thermoses. It's the seventh-largest such collection in the world | 50. | Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve, Antioch, a labyrinth of tunnels and natural wonders of historic mining district to explore |
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