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

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

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

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

Irontown was founded in 1868, as a second attempt to mine iron from the nearby Iron Mountain.

Not your typical pet cemetery.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.