Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A 50-foot tile mural mosaic for the 100-year anniversary of the Statue of Liberty.

A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.