Take a look behind the walls of the oldest California state prison and see what life is like doing hard time. San Quentin is the largest priosn in the US and has the only California's death row for male inmates.

29 dogs from around the world have taken part in the annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, California. 

The Jumping Frog Jubilee is an essential part of the annual fair in Calaveras County, California. Its history dates back to 1928 when the first contest was held, based on the story theme from Mark Twain’s novel “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County”. Nowadays, the contesting teams come from all over the state to engage into a funny competition of making the frog jump as far as possible, usually by shouting at it.

Watch the people gathering at Coachella Festival, which is held annually every third and last weekend of April in the hot Coachella Valley, Indio City, California.

You may wonder if Facebook’s new headquarters is a college campus or a multibillion-dollar company. Their new 57-acre headquarters is in Menlo Park, California, on the same land that Sun Microsystems had its headquarters. See how Facebook employees get to spend their time at work.

The beginning of 2012 turned out to be a surfer’s paradise along the Southern Califronia coast. Surf was up at Newport Beach and other coastal areas with breakers at the well-known Wedge rising 20 feet (6 meters).

Trouble is hard to miss. This part African wildcat lives in California. Its owner, Debby Maraspina, bred the animal 3 years ago. She is happy that her cat, docile as a kitten, has risen to fame.

Lynea Lattanzio runs a unique cat shelter in her very own 12 acre Parlier, California home. For 19 years she has been housing, feeding and tending to a growing number of feline friends, at a current cost of $5,700 a day and $40,000 a week! She receives donations and volunteer help to keep the “Cat House” thriving.

The billionaire CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, recently bought a new house in Palo Alto, California. The two-story house cost about $7 million dollars and has two fireplaces, a kitchen, a music room, a living room, five bedrooms, five bathrooms, and is about 5,618 square feet (522 square meters). On the one third of an acre backyard there is a BBQ area and a swimming pool.

These are fans and actors on the set of the movie Mad Max last September in southern California. Apparently, the fans wanted to enjoy the atmosphere and lawlessness of the movie. Participants only needed a ticket and a costume to enjoy the event.

Going back to the early 20th century Glass Beach, near Fort Bragg and now part of MacKerricher State Park, was used as a dumping ground for glass and other refuse. Decades later the beach is covered with gorgeous multi-colored glass, smoothed by the ocean.

If you have a pet and you need to go on vacation this maybe a solution. This is a 23,000 square foot hotel and spa for pets: dogs, cats, birds and exotics.

The second you step foot in California’s Yellowstone National Park you will be amazed by the natural beauty. These pictures barely do it justice, but do show how many different kinds of landscapes there are to see.

This is Redondo Beach California, Kings Harbor where, on the morning of March 8th, millions of dead Anchovies were found. They literally clogged parts of the harbor. The dead Anchovies weren’t just on the surface, they were many feet deep.

You think there is nothing, however it is right in front of you.

Remember the post of yesterday about Jenny, a girl who quitted her job in a creative, original and daring way?

Well, as some of you mentioned it in the comments, it was nothing but another Internet hoax.

As entertaining as it was, nothing was true, the girl is just a Californian actress (at least, that's what she says..) named Elyse Porterfield.

I’ll let you discover more pics of her and her explanations in the following…

An unusual gathering of cosplayers was noticed at Craig Regional Park in Fullerton (California). You will see hot girls, bright costumes and funny characters after the jump.

If you ever hiked across the slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada in summer, you have surely noticed that the snow here, at altitudes of 10,000 to 12,000 feet, is very unique. For hundreds of years scientists from all over the world couldn’t solve the mystery of “watermelon snow”.

The first accounts of watermelon snow are in the writings of Aristotle. Would you like to know why the snow is pink? The answer is right after the jump.

After the little kitten hidden in a police car bumper, this time it is a baby seal that was stuck under a police car in Ocean Beach, California. He got out from the ocean, crawled for 50-60 yards on the grass area and got on the road. The police car that was passing by, stopped in the middle of the road so that any car couldn’t run the baby seal over. When the police car stopped, the animal got under it and had a nap for almost 4 hours.
Then the ‘Sea World Marine Animal Rescue’ team was called, they took out the baby seal and took him into the Sea World for 4-6 weeks until he gains a normal weight and force. Then they will free him into the wild.
Another “animal” happy ending :)))