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

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

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

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

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

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.