This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Home to an apple tree that can produce 25 different varieties of fruit.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.