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Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

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

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

Far out of its comfort zone, this sequoia was planted as a symbol of the connection between Visalia and its neighboring national park.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.