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This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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.

Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

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

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.