Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.