A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

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."

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

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

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

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.