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- In this hour-long special, Huell looks at the history of In-N-Out Burger. He gets an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of In-N-Out Headquarters and the flagship store #1 in Baldwin Park where it all started back in 1948.
- The historic mining town of Randsburg in eastern Kern County was established after the discovery of gold in 1895. Huell spends the day learning about the town's history and getting to know some of the colorful characters living there now.
- Huell explores one of the last remnants of the wild west. Bodie, once a thriving gold-mining town, is now a state historic park and regarded as one of the largest and best preserved examples of an authentic ghost town.
- Experience a recreation of everyday life in a 19th century Russian community at Fort Ross State Historic Park; sail aboard the state's official tall ship, the Californian, and see for yourself the site where Sir Francis Drake left a plate of brass when he landed on our California shore.
- Huell spends a day in Buttonwillow, which calls itself the "Cotton Capitol of California" and has a great time out in the fields. For historical purposes, he picks cotton the old-fashioned way, and then steps into the future and learns about a new, state-of-the-art cotton gin.
- Huell sees the first suspension bridge west of the Mississippi at the annual Bidwell Bar Day celebration at Lake Oroville. He visits The Red Church in Sonora and discovers an unusual source of pride at Columbia's Annual Poison Oak show.
- Huell meets famous western duo, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and hears them sing their trademark song. Then he meets Herb Jeffries who starred in black westerns in the 30s. Finally, he goes to the 17th Annual Black Cowboy Parade in Oakland.
- Huell explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast where the enormous set from the 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments" is buried. Then he goes to Alleghany in Sierra County and descends 1500 feet underground in a gold mine.
- Huell gets the full Golden Gate Bridge experience by going across, under, above, inside and on top of it. He learns its construction history from two original crew members and rare footage and then meets the current daily maintenance crew.
- Join Huell on a unique adventure to two of California's rarely seen natural wonders: the Bristlecone Pine, the oldest, continuously living thing on this planet found in the White Mountains of the Eastern Sierra, and magnificent Le Conte Falls deep in the rocky and steep terrain of Yosemite National Park.
- Huell devotes a full episode to one of America's oldest, strangest and most beautiful lakes. Located east of the Sierra Nevada, Mono Lake is famous for the curious formations of calcium carbonate known as tufa and for its unique ecosystem.
- Huell visits the grounds of Capitol Park in Sacramento, California's official front and backyard and finds azaleas, huckleberry, 100-year-old cedar trees and a Memorial Grove of trees transplanted from the battlefields of the Civil War.
- Step back in time with Huell to the olden days of making pottery the Gladding McBean way. The 118-year-old company in rural Lincoln, near Sacramento, is the nation's only remaining major manufacturer of terra cotta. From decorative to functional, McBean's terra cotta is acclaimed for its distinctive style which graces landmark buildings in big cities and small towns across our state.
- Huell looks at two historic examples of water under pressure. The Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park is where miners used tremendous water cannons in search of gold. Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga is one of only three in the world.
- Huell looks at three unexpected state firsts: the story behind the "real" discovery of gold; the first commercial oil well; and a location where an overlooked innovation led to the first national transmission of electricity.
- Huell checks out a palm and a pine tree planted on Highway 99 to signify the transition from SoCal to NorCal. A search ensues for the state's geographic center. A few towns claim to be the center, but surveyors help locate the exact spot.
- Huell explores Beauty Ranch, once the home of Jack London and now a State Historic Park in Sonoma Valley, also known as Valley of the Moon. It's where London wrote many books, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
- Huell explores one of the state's biggest, most beautiful, and least seen forests, the incredible kelp forests offshore. He travels from Monterey to San Diego to see how it grows, how it's harvested, and how it's used in many common foods.
- The Coast Guard airlifts Huell to the 1892 St. George Reef Lighthouse, seven miles offshore from Crescent City. He learns about this massive 150-foot-tall structure from a member of the Preservation Society that will soon take over upkeep.
- Huell traces the lives of two unique men who created two amazing underground sites: the Underground Gardens of Baldasare Forestiere in Fresno and Burro Schmidt's 2,000-foot-long tunnel through a mountain in the Mojave Desert.
- Huell learns about Catalina Island Pigeon Messenger Service which provided communication to the mainland in the 1890s. Then he visits the former Army Air Corps Condor Field, Twentynine Palms which trained glider pilots during World War II.
- Huell travels back to a bygone era when he tours the Aztec Hotel and the Wigwam Motel, two popular attractions along "The Main Street of America," Route 66.
- Huell tours Devils Postpile National Monument in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Made of thousands of columns of black basalt towering 60 feet over the San Joaquin River, the postpile looks like a huge cathedral pipe organ built of stone.
- Alcatraz Island is well known as a federal penitentiary that housed the most notorious criminals from 1934 to 1963. Huell learns the prior history dating to the 1850s and tours the labyrinth of tunnels and rooms under "The Rock."
- Huell spends the day in the central-coast town of Lompoc at their annual Mural-in-a-Day where 15 talented artists paint a mural that commemorates a 12-acre floral flag planted by Bodger Seeds in 1942 as patriotic support of the war effort.
- Known today for recreation, Lake Arrowhead was originally built to irrigate the citrus groves of San Bernardino through tunnels. Huell rides an elevator 185 feet down into a 3800 feet long tunnel that was part of this abandoned project.
- Huell goes to Shingletown in Shasta County for a visit to the remarkable Wild Horse Sanctuary, which gives a permanent home to these magnificent wild horses forcibly removed from our deserts and plains.
- Huell stops at Noriega's Basque restaurant and bar, a third-generation family business, in Bakersfield's Old Town Kern. He enjoys an amazing, traditional Basque lunch and is treated to wonderful stories about Basque culture in the area.
- Huell travels to the mountains above Fresno to tour "Big Creek"' which was America's first large-scale integrated hydroelectric project, begun in 1911.
- Huell takes a cruise aboard the Tule Queen to explore the enchanting and diverse environment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. He learns about the rich natural and human history of this important region and sees some amazing sights.
- At Sutter's Fort, which had a hospital since 1840, Huell learns about Gold Rush-era medical care. Few actual doctors were available and those seeking treatment may have seen midwives, nurses, herbalists, or charlatans selling snake oil.
- On this adventure Huell sees the Laguna Beach that the locals know and love including Orange Inn, Laguna Art Museum, Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Nix Nature Center, Las Brisas Mexican Restaurant and Main Beach's historic lifeguard tower.
- Huell travels to the Sacramento Delta to learn about pears. He starts with a family who has been farming for six generations. Then he visits the 36th annual Pear Fair, in Courtland, to sample pear bread, pie, ice cream, vinegar, and more.
- Huell spends a day in Granite Bay at family-owned Otow Orchard to learn the ancient Japanese art of Hoshigaki, the drying of persimmons. They are dried each fall in a slow, hands-on process resulting in a tender, moist sugary delicacy.
- Huell travels to Kern County to learn about the historic "Weedpatch Camp", immortalized in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, a federal labor and living camp for "Oakie" migrant farm workers who fled the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.
- In a one-hour special episode, Huell looks back at previous visits to two unusual desert locales near the Salton Sea: geothermal mud pots and Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain. He then revisits Leonard to see how his mountain has grown.
- Huell gets a personal tour of the Hearst Castle grounds to see the beautiful trees, flowers, walkways, statues, fountains, pool and gardens, all elements of the landscape architecture collaboratively designed by Julia Morgan and WR Hearst.
- Huell tours the largest wooden buildings in the world, the blimp hangars at Marine Corps Air Station Tustin. He then visits the Navy Seabee Museum in Port Hueneme and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to learn the history of Quonset huts.
- Huell visits two historic Gold Rush towns with interesting names in Yuba County. Timbuctoo was named after the faraway African city. Smartsville now has its original name after the reversal of a 1909 mandate changed the name to Smartville.
- Curious about the odd, colored ponds in south San Francisco Bay, Huell visits Cargill Salt in Newark. Salt has been harvested from seawater ponds there since the Gold Rush thanks to a combination of natural conditions found in few places.
- Finished in 1874, the California State Capitol is a neoclassical gem. As with any building of this size, there are lots of steps. Some are obvious, such as those to the entrance, but some are hidden, and some are very scary to climb.
- Huell has the most exciting adventure of his lifetime, skydiving with the world-famous U.S. Army Parachute Team, known as the Golden Knights, at the Yuma Proving Ground in the year of their 50th anniversary.
- Huell sails aboard the state's official tall ship, the Californian to see just how hard it was for our early settlers to get here. He also enjoys some sea shanties.
- Huell travels to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve and Monterey Bay to explore the little-known history of abalone in California. From Native Americans who harvested them from the intertidal zone to the diving industry of the early 1900s.
- Huell takes one last tour of Mare Island Naval Shipyard which, after 142 years of service to the nation, is to be closed due to military downsizing. He also visits with former workers who show him some of the historic areas of the site.
- Huell tracks down some missing San Francisco history: The Berkeley, an 1898 steam ferryboat now part of the San Diego Maritime Museum; and the Fox Theater organ which now entertains audiences at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.
- Huell goes to the International Printing Museum in Carson, which takes one of the world's most significant collections of antique printing machinery and brings it to life through working demonstrations and theater presentations.
- Huell spends the day with the biologists who live on the Farallon Islands 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco. Now protected as the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge, these islands are rich with flora, fauna, and human history.
- Huell goes to the little farming community of Sloughhouse near Sacramento and meets George Signorotti, owner of the state's last family-owned hops farm. He witnesses the harvesting and baling process of this formerly huge California crop.
- Huell tours a strange and historic fleet of ships, the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay. Hundreds of ships chained together, from tub to tanker, from Victory to cruiser, all harking back to the state's and nation's naval past.
- Huell explores the history of Yosemite Firefall. Prior to 1969, burning embers were pushed off Glacier Point summer nights at 9:00 to thrill visitors in Camp Curry 3000 feet below. He shares footage of Horsetail Fall, a natural "firefall".
- Huell tours two neat, but extremely different, houses where nobody lives now: the public, grand Victorian house which was the governor's mansion from 1903 to 1967, and a one-room cabin that was the very private home of a bona fide hermit.
- Situated 30 miles east of Indio, this popular stop for travelers and truckers is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Huell spends the day with the people who live and work in this desert outpost as they enjoy this milestone.
- Huell rides the rails without boarding a train. He goes to the State Railroad Museum in Sacremento to learn about handcars and watch the National Handcar Races. Then he goes to McCloud for a rail excursion with the Motorcar Operators West.
- Huell tours The Central Garden at The Getty Center, a 134,000-square-foot design created by renowned artist Robert Irwin featuring a natural ravine and tree-lined walkway winding through an extraordinary array of sights, sounds and scents.
- Huell gets a behind the scenes tour and takes the swim of a lifetime in the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle. One of the most spectacular pools in the world, it is fed by spring water and surrounded by ancient Roman-style columns and statues.
- Huell meets Joe Rinaudo whose passion is a 1926 American Fotoplayer, which uses rolls like player pianos to provide music and sound effects for silent films. He enjoys a silent film with Joe, his hand cranked projector and his photoplayer.
- Huell gets a close look at some of Lake Tahoe's beautifully preserved and restored wooden boats at the 24th annual Concours d' Elegance. He talks with owners about the rich history of their boats and goes for a ride on some fast boats.
- A historic look back at winter from the way ice was harvested a century ago.
- Huell travels to Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies in San Francisco Bay. This university research facility is on land with rich history that includes codfish, ship coaling, bridge cables and constructing anti-submarine nets.
- Huell visits the 1928 Pantages Theatre in downtown Fresno. Later known as Warner's Theatre when owned by Warner Bros., Frank Caglia bought it in 1973, renamed it Warnors (for legal reasons) and restored it and its pipe organ to past glory.
- Before Disneyland and other large amusement parks, there was Busch Gardens. Huell goes to Pasadena where he uncovers the lost and largely forgotten original Busch Gardens, a botanical paradise which amused visitors from 1905 to 1938.
- Huell visits San Miguel Island with a group of history buffs who recreate the 1542 landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo.
- Huell goes to Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park where members of its living history program dressed as James Marshall and period miners give an idea of life back then and take him to the spot gold was discovered January 24, 1848.
- Huell spends a couple days with the US Navy Blue Angels at their winter training facility in El Centro. He watches the current team train, meets veteran pilots, talks to proud local citizens, and gets the flight of a lifetime in an F/A-18.
- Huell explores Costa Mesa and learns how far it has come, from its start as a bean field to a state-of-the-art performance center.
- Huell visits two "replicas" of the Golden Gate Bridge: the walkway to the Point Bonita Lighthouse at the Marin Headlands in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Guy West Bridge at Sacramento State University.
- Music provided solace for the internees at Manzanar War Relocation Center, one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident aliens were detained during World War II. Huell meets Mary Kageyama Nomura, the Songbird of Manzanar.
- Huell takes an exciting four-mile excursion on the historic Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad.
- Huell goes to the Administration Building on Treasure Island that served as Pacific headquarters for Pan American's luxurious Clipper seaplanes of the 1930s. These huge flying boats were named after the great sailing ships of the 1800s.
- Huell travels 2,000 miles east to rediscover the California roots and history of the Delta Queen, a paddlewheel steamboat built in the 1920s in Stockton for service on the Sacramento River and moved to the Mississippi River 1947.
- Huell searches the desert for big things. He sees giant wind turbines near Palm Springs. At Boron he enters the state's largest open-pit mine and rides in a huge ore truck. He climbs a gigantic antenna dish at Goldstone Deep Space Network.
- Huell learns about a Christmas star that shone for the holidays for decades on a San Antonio Heights home in the San Gabriel foothills. An October 2003 fire destroyed the house and star, but the community rebuilt the star before Christmas.
- Huell goes back in time to visit naturalist John Muir who founded the Sierra Club in 1892 to protect the newly created Yosemite National Park.
- Huell gets a first hand taste of the See's Candies success story. He visits one of the earliest shops in San Francisco, meets current and past employees, and travels to L.A. for a tour of the inner sanctum of the See's factory.
- Huell travels to Laguna Beach to watch some locals enjoy the sport of skimboarding.
- Huell goes to the San Francisco Bay to learn about the largest train ferry ever built. The Solano ferry shuttled trains between Port Costa and Benicia. It was once a vital link in the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad lines.
- Huell learns how jojoba seeds are harvested and processed into oil at 10-acre LaRonna farm near Desert Center in Riverside County's Chuckwalla Valley. Jojoba oil is an alternative to sperm whale oil that is used in cosmetics or as biofuel.
- White Rock Island, commonly known as Bird Rock, near Two Harbors on Catalina has been privately owned since the 1920s. Huell takes three separate boat trips with the family that now owns it to visit and learn about their private island.
- Huell cruises on two very historic boats in Newport Bay. Family-owned Balboa Island Ferry has been in service between Balboa Island and Balboa Peninsula since 1919. Next is an evening cruise aboard John Wayne's famous yacht the Wild Goose.
- Huell learns about the four islands just offshore from Long Beach that are actually part of a 42-acre oilfield containing 175-foot-high drilling towers disguised to look like high-rise condos and 1,100 wells.
- Huell tours Coso Rock Art District National Historic Landmark, inside Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, to see one of the highest concentrations of petroglyphs. Some may be up to 16,000 years old, with others made as recently as 1800.
- Huell goes to the Upper Newport Bay to see what is being done to keep this area green for everyone to enjoy.
- Huell makes the 17-mile round trip hike past Vernal and Nevada Falls to climb to the summit of Yosemite's iconic Half Dome.
- Huell tours the quaint little town of Locke, settled by Chinese on the Sacramento River Delta. Then he hears ancient Cahuilla Indian bird songs sung by tribe members, and participates in a threshing bee and antique tractor show in Vista.
- In Richmond, Huell tours the site of Kaiser Shipyards that built 747 ships during WW II. He talks to some of the men and women who worked there. Also, the SS Red Oak Victory returns to Richmond where it will be restored as a museum.
- Huell goes in search of some of our most permanent residents. He sees where some of the most famous animals from TV and film are resting in peace including Toto from "The Wizard Of Oz," Arnold the pig from "Green Acres," and Benji the dog.
- Huell recreates a 1937 three-day event which celebrated the opening of a new road from Lone Pine to Death Valley by carrying a gourd full of water taken from the highest lake in the US at Mt. Whitney to Badwater, the lowest lake in the US.
- Huell learns about surfing at famous and historic San Onofre Beach in San Diego County.
- Huell goes to Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center and the California State Railroad Museum to learn about the mysterious disappearance and re-discovery of the Golden Spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
- Huell goes to Campo in San Diego County and departs from Pacific Southwest Railway Museum on a train to Tecate, Mexico. He takes a tour of the Tecate beer plant, explores the town and its charming central plaza, then returns on the train.
- Huell goes to revitalized Tulare Lake that had dried up after farmers choked off its source rivers in the 1930s. Then he goes to Coloma to re-create the historic James Marshall gold discovery and learn about the role Jenny Wimmer played.
- Huell rides a 1932 Model A railbus to get to the abandoned Goat Canyon Trestle, the highest existing curved wooden trestle in the US, built on the San Diego and Arizona Railway in 1932.
- Huell visits a massive archaeological site with millions of fossils dating from the Miocene Epoch, 15 million years ago. Kern County was once at the bottom of a huge sea filled with massive prehistoric sharks called megladons which were as big as city busses and fed on whales. Sharktooth Hill is literally covered with fossilized shark teeth. Huell also visits the Buena Vista Museum, which houses amazing archaeological finds recovered from Sharktooth Hill.
- The original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica was very popular during its heyday from 1934 to 1959. Huell goes there to visit with some of the men and women who made it famous and they share some wonderful old photos, home movies, and stories.
- Huell travels to the high Sierra Nevada on horseback to see how trout are dropped from an airplane into mountain lakes.
- Huell goes to the Custom House at Monterey State Historic Park, discovers the tallest bridge in California, and checks out the town of Cool - all unplanned adventures.
- Huell travels to one of the oldest wineries in California. The Guasti family established their winery in 1904 and at one time had 4,000 acres of grapes in the Rancho Cucamonga area.
- Huell goes to Catalina for a 75th anniversary cruise on the Blanche W, a 64-foot wooden boat commissioned by William Wrigley Jr. in 1924 and named for his granddaughter who also attends and shares stories about the Flying Fish Boat Tours.
- Huell goes to Groveland, a quirky Gold Rush town with Native American roots near Yosemite. Then it's on to Beale's Cut, a hand-dug stagecoach road in the the Santa Clarita Mountains north of Los Angeles.
- El Rancho Escondido ("the hidden ranch") nestled in a valley outside Avalon, Catalina Island was originally the Wrigley family's Arabian horse ranch. Huell spends a day with Wrigley family members as they reminisce about life on the ranch.
- Corona, aka "The Circle City", held auto road races from 1913 to 1916 using Grand Boulevard which forms a perfect circle three miles around. Huell attends a historic marker dedication and drives the route in vintage racers from the period.
- Huell goes to two places he's wanted to visit for years. First is the restored Upside Down House on Highway 395 in the town of Lee Vining. Next is the Livermore Fire Department to see a light bulb that's been burning nonstop for 107 years.
- Huell joins the crew of the fishing boat Janice Anne as they go urchin diving off the Channel Islands. Urchins are big business and some call them "Blue Water Gold". He also has an urchin feast at Piranha Sushi Restaurant in Santa Barbara.
- Huell goes in search of California's first theater and finds there are actually two "first theaters," one in Monterey and the other in Sacramento. Both started in the 19th century and continue to operate today.
- Huell goes to North Beach Campground at Pismo State Beach to see thousands of monarch butterflies at the largest overwintering colony in the U.S. He gets a tour from a park ranger, docents and a Cal Poly SLO class studying the monarchs.
- Huell tours the Point Sur Lighthouse, the last turn-of-the-century lighthouse still operating in California.
- Huell goes to Mission San Juan Capistrano for the festivities and traditions related to the annual return of swallows on March 19th, St. Joseph's Day. The nesting behavior is explained by wildlife experts who work with these little birds.
- Huell learns about the amazing human history of Yosemite as told through some of the many buildings that dot its valley floor.
- Huell visits two Hmong farms in Fresno County that are growing some of the most interesting and unusual produce in California: a small family farm and the largest Hmong farm in the county.
- Huell seeks out "Moon Trees" in California. These are trees grown from 500 seeds that orbited the Moon on Apollo 14 in 1971. Later, the seeds were germinated by the Forest Service and the seedlings planted throughout the USA and the world.
- Huell travels to the Imperial Wildlife Area near the Salton Sea, one of only three areas in the US where geothermal mud pots and mud volcanoes occur. Photographer Jack Hobart shares some amazing still and video images of these phenomena.
- Huell explores Inyo National Forest's Hot Creek Geologic Site in Long Valley Caldera east of the Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes. Magma two miles underground heats spring water that rises and mixes with the cold snow melt in the creek.
- In the mid 1920's, Rex B. Clark, an unmatched visionary of his time, accomplished the near impossible by constructing the world-class Norconian Resort in a remote area of Southern California. Huell travels to the site with Kevin Bash who is a filmmaker and historian to see this faded but beautiful structure in all its glory.
- The most popular exhibit at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library is the actual farmhouse where he was born and raised. Julie Nixon Eisenhower gives Huell a personal tour of the home and recounts her father's memories of growing up there.
- Huell learns the the history of why only three cemeteries are left within the boundaries of San Francisco.
- Rarely open to the public, Huell tours Frank Sinatra's former Rancho Mirage home. His guide is entertainer Frankie Randall, a long-time Sinatra crony. They also visit Sinatra's final resting place at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City.
- Huell stops at the Trees of Mystery, a good old-fashioned roadside attraction on Highway 101 just north of Klamath. He tours through some of the most amazing Redwoods in California, both on the ground and on the SkyTrail aerial tramway.
- Huell learns the importance that the poultry industry played in the development of the town of Petaluma.
- Huell steps back in time by visiting a gathering of classic teardrop trailers. They sleep two and have built-in kitchens all in a teardrop-shaped trailer about 10 feet long. Popular from the 30s to the 70s, many were hand built from plans.
- Huell gets a private tour of the California State Library which includes the state's first newspaper, images of the gold country from the 1850s, a 17th century state map, and John Marshall's own hand-drawn map and sketch of gold discovery.
- Huell tours the exhibits at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum whose structure was based on the Temple of Amon at Karnak.
- Huell learns about William Ide who became president of California after the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846 and "Emperor Norton" who, in 1859, proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
- Huell goes to the Algodones Dunes where portions of a wooden plank road, which stretched from Imperial County to Yuma, AZ, have been preserved. At Camp Lockett in Campo he attends a reunion of members of the last mounted unit in the Army.
- Huell explores two interesting State Parks. At Providence Mountains State Recreation Area in the eastern Mojave Desert he sees the Mitchell Caverns Nature Reserve. Then it's Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park in the Sierra Nevada.
- Huell journeys to Honda Point, the most dangerous spot on the state's coast, and finds out why it is called "Devil's Jaw." Then he goes to the jewel of the California missions, La Purisima Mission in Lompoc, now a State Historic Park.
- Huell tours the 80,000-acre Hearst Ranch, owned by the family since 1865. This working cattle ranch surrounding the famous Castle specializes in free-range, grass-fed beef raised using humane, all-natural, sustainable agriculture methods.
- Huell travels to two significant but little-known places in California. First he gets a tour of the fields of Camp Pendelton, near San Diego, where for a period in the mid-1970s thousands of Vietnamese refugees lived in a large tent city -- their first stop after fleeing their war torn homeland. Next, Huell visits the Sherman Institute High School, an off-reservation boarding school for Native Americans that has educated students for almost a century.
- Huell attends the centennial of Colonel Charles Young's tenure as superintendent at Sequoia National Park. Festivities include the rededication of the long-forgotten Booker T. Washington Tree which Young had named in his honor in 1903.
- Huell learns about Native American fishing techniques on a trip to Eureka with members from the Yurok tribe at the mouth of the Klamath river.
- Huell travels to the Mennonite Quilt Center and other stops in the historic farming community of Reedley in Fresno County.
- Huell watches the Bok Kai Parade; marvels at the world's largest blossoming plant, the Sierra Madre Wisteria Vine; and celebrates the memory of Abraham Lincoln with a march to the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands.
- Huell goes to Temecula to tour the 3000-acre former ranch of lawyer-turned-writer and "Perry Mason" creator, Erle Stanley Gardner, accompanied by a longtime ranch manager, one of Gardner's secretaries, and Gardner's 99-year-old widow Jean.
- While driving through Amador County to Volcano, a thriving gold mining town in the 1850s and 60s, Huell happens upon a mysterious cave that served as the Masonic Lodge in this Gold Rush community. He learns its history on a personal tour.
- Huell tours two historic aircraft carriers that are now museums in the waters of California: the USS Midway in San Diego and the USS Hornet in Alameda.
- Huell takes a look at some beloved buildings including the Bayliss Branch Library in Glenn County; the Old Schoolhouse in Twentynine Palms; and the Apple Pan diner in West Los Angeles.
- Point Fermin Lighthouse was built in 1874. The Navy converted it to a lookout in World War II and removed the Fresnel lens. Huell traces the history of the lens, which changed hands many times but is now back at the restored lighthouse.
- Huell goes to Allensworth, established in 1908 and a state historic park since 1976. It was California's only town founded, financed, and governed by African Americans. Then he tours old and new Kernville as residents share their memories.
- Join Huell as he takes a look at the history of this Japanese American community in downtown Los Angeles, including the annual Nisei Parade and all its festivities: traditional tea ceremony; Ikebana or flower arranging and bonsai exhibits, plus more.
- Huell travels to the northern California logging town of Scotia about 20 miles south of Eureka. It's a historic company town and this unique community played a vital role in the history of the region and the development of modern forestry.
- Huell attends the 28th annual Christmas concert of traditional songs performed by hundreds of tuba players at Glendale's Alex Theatre. Before the show, he learns all about tubas and the event from several players and conductor Jim Self.
- Huell gets a taste of history of two family crop empires. He visits the orchards and processing plant of Graber Olives. He then travels to Orange Country to learn how the world-famous Knott's Berry Farm grew from one woman's home cooking.
- Huell tours the Fort MacArthur Museum in San Pedro, a former United States Army post and site of coastal-defense gun batteries. He talks with eyewitnesses and sees a reenactment of the Great Los Angeles Air Raid of February 25, 1942.
- Huell learns that Death Valley hosts a variety of life despite its name, but you have to look closely. Touring with a park ranger on a couple of spring days, he sees various beautiful wildflowers, insects, lizards, and the unique pupfish.
- Huell rides the California Zephyr, a magnificent train which traveled between Chicago and Oakland from 1949 to 1970. He boards a restored silver Vista-Dome coach and travels through some of the most spectacular scenery in the state.
- Huell goes to the 2002 National Society for the Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America Winter Convention in San Bernardino to learn firefighting history of small hand pumpers, steam-driven engines, etc.
- Huell goes to Stanford University to learn about Eadweard Muybridge and his groundbreaking photographs of animal locomotion done with the financial help of wealthy Leland Stanford, former California Governor and founder of the university.
- El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road, also known as The King's Highway) connected the California missions. Huell explores its rich history and joins Caltrans as they install one of the roadside bells that mark the route.
- Huell tours Folsom Prison, which for well over a century has housed some of California's toughest characters and gets a rare look inside this landmark prison. He visits Folsom's first death row, the chapel-which contains what has to be one of the most unusual paintings of "The Last Supper," the historic "China Hill," and the seldom-seen prison graveyard, final resting place for generations of prisoners.
- Huell travels to the small town of McCloud, located near the foot of Mt. Shasta, where he enjoys its historical buildings, a square dance and a ride on the McCloud River Railroad.
- Huell and a Southwest Museum researcher visit two LA area families that create elaborate folk art Nacimientos, or Nativity scenes, that are the traditional center of Christmas season ceremony and celebration in many Mexican American homes.
- Poinsettias have been a Christmas tradition around the world for decades. Huell goes to the Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas to learn the history of this plant and all about how they are grown and sold at this third-generation family business.
- Huell takes a floral tour of California and visits Daffodil Hill in the Gold Country, Carlsbad Ranch and the California Poppy Reserve in Antelope Valley.
- The focus is on quilts, very old ones. Huell visits a quilting club, briefly. Then a tour from an expert on historical California quilts wraps this one up.
- Huell looks at two ways of cooling off: first, in the amazing old "desert submarines" in Indio, then at an honest-to-goodness oasis near Palm Springs.
- Huell pays a visit to the 31st Griffith Park Sidecar Rally.
- Huell hikes from Saddlebag Lake to Conness Lakes high in the Eastern Sierra Nevada near Tioga Pass to view the Conness Glacier in a stunning part of the Inyo National Forest.
- In a one-hour special, the Hollywood Sign Trust gives Huell access to the world-famous landmark and tells its history. He also meets a worker from the 1978 crew that rebuilt the sign and two pranksters responsible for humorous alterations.
- Huell goes to the small Kern County town of Wasco, famous for roses, and learns how rose bushes are harvested, packaged and shipped to nurseries and home centers all over the country. He also tours Wasco and learns about its rich history.
- Avocados have long been an important part of So Cal life. Huell explores the industry in north San Diego County where he learns the history, sees how they are grown, harvested and packed, and gets some nutrition info about this fruit.
- Huell explores some obscure World War II history. The world's largest floating crane was seized from Germany at the war's end and moved to Long Beach Naval Shipyard. A Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood Oil Field near Goleta in 1942.
- Huell takes a trip through the Mojave Desert to see some its many unknown destinations, including historic homesteads, immense sand dunes, an extinct volcano, an old train depot, and the tiny town of Amboy on old Route 66.
- Huell goes to the Mojave Desert's El Mirage Dry Lake, one of the world's best spots for land yachts. These wheeled vehicles have a sail and move across land powered by wind. He learns this unique sport's history and enjoys a couple rides.
- Ansel Adams is famous for his landscape photos. Huell goes to LA Central Library to see some of Adams' "forgotten photos" taken for the March 1941 issue of Fortune Magazine in an article about life in LA and its booming aircraft industry.
- Huell explores the 3,000-acre Kern River Preserve east of Isabella Lake. Managed by Audubon-California, it's one of the state's largest remaining riparian forest habitats and one of the best places to see birds including turkey vultures.
- Huell spends the day exploring Tustin starting at the Tustin Museum for a little history. He visits a blacksmith and stops in the Wooden Indian for a haircut. He sees some wonderful old architecture and grabs some lunch at BBQ joint.
- Huell tours the Occidental College campus in Eagle Rock where president-elect Barack Obama spent his first two undergraduate years. He sees his dorm room and talks with a former classmate and professors about how his Oxy days shaped him.
- Huell goes to the Ettore Corporation in Oakland to learn about squeegees developed in 1936.
- Huell learns the sometimes-controversial history of the iconic Transamerica Pyramid and gets a special tour, including a vertigo-inducing climb up the inside of the spire. At 853 feet with 48 stories, it's San Francisco's tallest building.
- Huell travels to Pismo Beach, on the coast 10 miles south of San Luis Obispo, and learns how its famous clams, plentiful in the region at the turn of the century, did their part in creating the image of this classic California beach town.
- Huell's first trip outside California stops in Quartzsite, AZ. He visits the historic stagecoach stop where the town began and joins throngs of snowbirds that create the world's largest RV park and swap meet for several weeks every winter.
- Huell gets a special tour of Will Rogers State Historic Park from Will's youngest child, Jimmy Rogers. He shares personal memories and shows Huell the grounds and ranch house that was the family home from 1928 until Will's death in 1935.
- Not far from Sacramento, on an old military base, Huell meets with a couple of experts and a bunch of school kids all eager to explore the flora and fauna that live in and around these wonderful natural pools that come to life in spring.
- Huell explores two north coast beaches that are a treasure hunters paradise where constant pounding of the surf has created some real "gems" of glass and agate.
- Huell goes to Golden Gate Park to see restored Dutch Windmill and dilapidated Murphy Windmill, both built in the early 1900s to pump water for irrigation. Then he checks out cutting-edge wind turbines that generate power in Tehachapi Pass.
- Huell finds two obscure examples of the connections between California and China at the Golden State Bonsai Collection and the Social Saloon of the SS China.
- Huell attends a lively recreation of an old-fashioned harvest near Modesto where the participants use vintage equipment and farming techniques while dressed in authentic attire.
- Huell explores just a few of the state's many natural wonders at Redwood National Park, Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, and Morro Rock.
- Huell visits Yosemite's high country for a walk through spectacular Tuolumne Meadows.
- Huell tours Headwaters Forest Reserve near Eureka. Public protests resulted in saving 7500 acres of old growth forest, including 1000-year-old redwoods, from logging. He also sees rusting remnants of Falk, an historic logging ghost town.
- Huell spends a day at the 2008 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival getting a backstage tour, meeting attendees, and enjoying the art and music. He later returns to the Empire Polo Club to learn what happens there the rest of the year.
- Coit Tower was built on Telegraph Hill in 1933 with a bequest from Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify San Francisco. Huell explores all aspects of this landmark, including the lobby murals, with descendants of one of the original artists.
- Huell learns the remarkable history of Azusa-based Rain Bird, a sprinkler company that began when Glendora citrus grower Orton Englehart invented the first impact sprinkler in 1933. He also sees the latest in watering technology in action.
- Huell learns about the succession of white horses named Traveler that have been USC mascot at home football games and other events since 1961. He sees the current mascot, Traveler VII, in action and meets the entourage that cares for him.
- Ladybugs are desired by gardeners for natural pest control. Huell seeks to find out where they come from by spending a day in a secret Sierra Nevada location with Doug Beck who makes a living by collecting and selling live ladybugs.
- Huell explores two unique outdoor theaters: the Spreckles Organ in San Diego's Balboa Park and the Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach.
- Huell learns about Columbian mammoths that roamed the state during the ice age by going to La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, and Sonoma Coast State Park in Northern California.
- Huell travels to the site of Walt Disney's model train control center and the Octagon Barn in San Luis Obispo.
- Huell learns about tide pools at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego. He joins scientists from Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network as they conduct research about marine animals and plants in the intertidal zone's harsh conditions.
- Huell is joined by a Hollywood costume designer to find out how California culture, especially movies, influences what people wear to the shore everywhere. He then interviews Esther Williams, the "Million Dollar Mermaid," poolside.
- Huell goes to Maritime Museum of San Diego to learn about building ships in a bottle. This art form is believed to have originated in the 18th century and these tiny masterpieces are also important pieces of maritime history.
- Huell learns the rich history of the New Almaden Mine and its namesake town located in the Santa Clara Valley near San Jose. This "quicksilver" (mercury) mine was the very first mining community in the state, starting operations in 1845.
- Huell goes to Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central coast near Lompoc. A guide from the Space and Missile Heritage Center gives him a tour and tells the history of nearly 2,000 rocket and missile launches that have occurred since 1958.
- Huell goes to Cambria to see Nitt Witt Ridge, an unusual state historical landmark. It was the home of Art Beal, a self-taught folk artist, who built it by hand over a period of 50 years using stones, found objects and discarded "junk."
- Founded in 1904 by George Ellery Hale, Mount Wilson Observatory came to dominate astronomy worldwide. In this one-hour special, Huell spends the day at this historic California location that plays an important role in scientific research.
- Huell goes to the McRoskey Airflex Mattress Company in San Francisco, a family business that has been manufacturing mattresses by hand since 1899. The McRoskeys have even keep a record of every mattress sold dating back to 1921.
- Huell searches for two animals in the state which aren't supposed to be here. On Catalina Island are buffalo, descendants of those used in a 1924 silent movie shoot. At Fort Tejon, the U.S. Army used camels in the 1850s for transportation.
- Huell visits the world's first motel in San Luis Obispo; stops at Pozo's Saloon, a stagecoach stop; and chats with the last remaining citizen of Moy Mell, where a colony of people called Dunites lived in the sand dunes in the 1920s-40s.
- Huell and cameraman Luis Fuerte travel to the town of Paradise in Butte County, for the annual Gold Nugget Days Celebration, complete with a parade and all sorts of community festivities. The local citizens also take him to the actual area where the huge nugget was found - an area where modern-day miners are still searching for gold. There's also an E Clampus Vitus Donkey Derby and a visit to the Gold Nugget Museum included in this adventure.
- Outside the Imperial Valley town of Niland, Huell goes to folk artist Leonard Knight's "Salvation Mountain" and an unofficial RV park known as "Slab City" on the site of an abandoned Marine Base.
- Huell explores three windy places. First, at Warner Bros. backlot he learns about movie wind machines. Then he checks out the wind tunnel at Cal Tech. Lastly, he travels to Point Reyes National Seashore, the windiest place in the state.
- Through orange crate labels and at a research orchard, Huell explores the history of the citrus industry which triggered massive migration to southern California.
- Huell travels to Central California to visit the 80 acre Masumoto Family Farm owned by David "Mas" Masumoto and his family. Mas is also an award winning author of such books as "Epitaph for a Peach" and "Wisdom of the Last Farmer."
- Huell searches for the Cape Mendocino Lighthouse which operated for about 100 years starting in 1868. The lighthouse tower was moved to Shelter Cove and restored by volunteers. The fresnel lens is in a replica of the tower in Ferndale.
- Huell travels to the small town of La Grange for some Gold Country history. One amazing sight is a huge gold dredge operated by the Tuolumne Dredge Company from 1937 to 1948 that now sits abandoned right off the highway.
- Huell tours the Elvis Presley Estate in Palm Springs, one of five homes owned by Elvis. Called Graceland West, it was his getaway from 1970 until his death. The current owners respect its history and are preserving it for future visitors.
- Huell gets a special tour of the Catalina Casino. With its ballroom, theater and meeting rooms it's been the focal point of Santa Catalina Island since opening in 1929. Completely restored, it retains its original charm and romantic style.
- Huell spends time in Yosemite Valley with Michael Adams, son of famed photographer Ansel Adams. They visit many sites where Ansel took his iconic photos. Michael gives insight into the mind of Ansel and tells of the family's early history.
- Huell goes to Musicians Institute in Hollywood to record his own version of "California, Here I Come" accompanied by students who also produce a music video. See the behind-the-scenes process and the world premiere of the completed video.
- Huell goes to Sturgeon's Mill in Sonoma County. At this location since 1923, it's one of the last steam-powered lumber mills with original equipment, some from the 1870s, in the US. The Restoration Project turned it into a working museum.
- Huell spends the day at Angel Stadium where he meets up with the good folks at West Coast Turf and learns all about the grass that they install at venues all over California.
- Huell learns about two historic flagpoles. Calipatria, at 184 feet below sea level, has a 184-foot flagpole that was once the world's tallest. In Livermore a flagpole with a strange history is being carved into various wooden tchotchkes.
- Huell learns about two California restaurant chains. Farmer Boys was founded in Perris in 1981 by the five Havadjias brothers who immigrated from Cyprus. Foster's Freeze was founded in 1946 in Inglewood by Midwesterner George Foster.
- With a group of San Francisco city experts, Huell seeks to solve which is the most crooked street in the world, the short section of Vermont Street on Potrero Hill or the more famous Lombard Street a few miles away on Russian Hill.
- Huell visits Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA's primary center for flight research. He talks to two men who designed and flew the Lunar Lander Research Vehicle, a test vehicle key to the eventual moon landing.
- Huell takes a cruise on Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential yacht, the USS Potomac, and learns its complex history. Now berthed at Jack London Square in Oakland, the ship is operated by volunteers and open for public tours and cruises.
- Shasta Lake, the state's largest reservoir, was created in 1945 by the completion of Shasta Dam. Huell takes a tour around and inside this engineering marvel. He meets a group of original workers and hears their stories about building it.
- Standing above Runyon Canyon near Hollywood, "OUTPOST" was once the largest neon sign in the world and rivaled the "HOLLYWOODLAND" sign. Huell visits the ridge where this California landmark lies in the weeds to bring it out of the past.
- Huell meets up with green chile aficionados at an annual event in the parking lot of La Puente High School where hundreds of people line up for fresh, roasted green chiles from Hatch, New Mexico.
- Huell goes to the Boeing Company in Long Beach and tours the plant where C-17 transport aircraft are assembled. Along the way he talks to just some of the many skilled workers that proudly build the "workhorse" of the US Air Force.
- Huell learns how pig ears are prepared and eaten in different cultures around L.A. From Mexican tradition, he tries them pickled and also battered and fried. Then he samples a gelatinous Asian delicacy at a Szechuan Chinese Restaurant.
- Huell joins actress Shelley Morrison and her husband Walter Dominguez for a visit to Animal Acres in Acton, a facility caring for neglected or abused farm animals.
- Huell visits the Krüegermann family that has been in the pickle and sauerkraut business since 1896. At their Los Angeles facility he learns all about the art of making sauerkraut.
- Huell visits the Southern California Pen Collectors Club at their quarterly meeting in Covina where he learns the history of all manner of writing instruments and rediscovers the joy of fountain pens.
- Huell visits with World Champion Musical Whistler, Carole Anne Kaufman, at her hair salon, Studio C Hair Artistry, after a quick stop at her mom Bonnie's store, Creative Woman - The Wizard of Bras.
- Huell learns the history of Jacaranda trees in California, which dates to the 1890s when horticulturalist Kate Sessions planted the seeds in Balboa Park. He finds that people have a love/hate appreciation of these blooming purple trees.
- Huell looks back to when he first visited the Watts Towers in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles back in 1993. He revisits the historic landmark, now known as Watts Towers Campus, to see what has changed.
- A one-hour special takes us from Northrop Grumman where the B2 is built to Edwards Air Force Base to take a look at the B2 up close. Huell and Luis were the first media representatives to be allowed in the cockpit of this top secret plane.
- Huell meets retired workers of Kaiser Steel in Fontana. The mill supplied Kaiser Shipyards during WW II. Kaiser closed in 1983, but memories remain at Kaiser Steel Museum. Huell tours the site, now the working plant of California Steel.
- Huell tours the office of Classic Arts Showcase, a TV programming service available through local public service channels. Programs include videos from ballet, opera, film, and theater. It was the vision of philanthropist Lloyd E. Rigler.
- A compilation of Videolog segments in which Huell remembers some Los Angeles landmarks from the past.
- Huell goes to The Yosemite Pioneer History Center and discovers what it was like to visit Yosemite, including the historic Wawona Hotel, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Huell explores the history of when the Chicago Cubs went to Santa Catalina Island for spring training each year from 1921 to 1951 when William L. Wrigley, Jr. owned both the team and the island.
- Huell travels to Death Valley in spring to experience rare occurrences caused by unusually heavy winter rain. He goes kayaking on ancient Lake Manly that reappeared at the normally parched Badwater and enjoys vast fields of wildflowers.
- Huell meets spearfisherman Bill Ernst of Malibu who recently caught the world record white sea bass. Then he goes to Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute in Carlsbad where they study and raise white sea bass to be released into the wild.
- Pacific Asia Museum is one of only four institutions in the United States dedicated exclusively to arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands. The museum's mission is to further cultural awareness and understanding through the arts.