An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

A breathtaking flower tunnel bursts with beautiful golden blossoms.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.