This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

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

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

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

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

This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.