A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

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

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

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.