Palos Verdes Peninsula

I wake up in motel rooms occupied by screaming tourists, my bottom half bursting out of women's slacks three sizes too small for me.

I wake up among the ruins of a shipwrecked freighter rusting away on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

I wake up on the Santa Monica beach to find a thin dusting of sand sprinkled across my original blue jeans as the tide laps against my ankles.

I consider therapy.

And here's Mathis with a random fact about San Pedro.

The Point Furman Light in San Pedro, which is a supposedly haunted lighthouse from 1874. and whom Alex is actively contacting regarding an overnight ghost investigation is located on the southernmost point of the Palos Verdes Peninsula at Point Furman, which was named by the British explorer George Vancouver, the same guy the cities and the island and the river and the mountains are named after.

who named them after Father Fermin de Lasun, Father Junipero Serra's successor as governor of the Spanish-California missions, who actually founded nine of the 21 himself, and who did the job for three years longer.

The light was extinguished in 1941 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Yeah, less.

Um, it's on the, uh, Palos Verdes Peninsula, and basically when it's, like, 95 degrees in Los Angeles, it's, like, 78 degrees here.

It's like a perfect climate all the time, beautiful and green somehow.

So standing in for the Everglades is Rolling Hills Estates, California.

I shot one under.

We went to Palos Verdes the one day.

I shot, I think, even par.

We had gone to Trump once.

Guests board the mountain lift and ride up to Camel Beach, then move through the abandoned emergency response camp, fog-filled water park attractions, chemical spills, barricades, eerie tunnels, and maze-like paths, coming face-to-face with mutated characters and scares along the way.

Magic of Jack-O-Lanterns returns with Palos Verdes with 10,000 pumpkins for 2026.

Magic of the Jack-O-Lanterns is back at South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes, California for 2026.

A family-friendly, all-ages Halloween walk lit by more than 10,000 hand-carved pumpkins.

It runs select nights, September 18th through November 1st, and tickets are on sale now.