One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

A very tiny church, bisected by a now-dead oak tree and marooned in the middle of a shopping center parking lot.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.