This square in downtown Eugene is dedicated to the novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey.

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.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

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

A giant fiberglass Muffler Man found new life as a rodeo guardian.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

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.

An outdoor display of military missiles developed at Point Mugu Naval Base.