A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

An installation tells of the horrific 1964 tsunami that devastated Crescent City, California.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

This California town keeps a graveyard of its retired, decorated fire hydrants.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

A large instrument played by the wind.

At 216 feet in length, this ornamental allium string is a feat to behold.

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

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

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

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

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.

A granite primate with a view.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.