This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

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

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

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

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

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