The magic's in the hole!

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The largest drain hole in the world.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.