A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Inside this store, a mysterious statue draws visitors from the world over.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.