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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

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

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.