Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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

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

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

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

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

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

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."