We've got sand, sun and surf, fer sure! But the California coast have even more: Did you know:

• Buried under the sand dunes of northern Santa Barbara County lies remnants of a lost "Egyptian" city created in 1923 by Cecil B. DeMille?


• There's a shop in La Jolla with a hidden staircase that winds down to a sea cave?


• In Long Beach, docked right next to the ocean liner Queen Mary, a Soviet-era Russian submarine is open for tours?


• At San Diego's remote Silver Strand beach, you're just as likely to see California seals in the water as Navy SEALS?


• Redondo Beach has a salt-water, chlorinated kiddie's lagoon, just steps away from the broad sweep of Los Angeles County's South Bay beaches?


• In Malibu you can take tours movie stars' beach homes from the water?





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