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

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Oldest building in California still in use.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.