A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.