Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

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

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.