Even in death, he's still your huckleberry.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.