This modern, multimedia museum takes visitors on an evolutionary journey back in time.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

The largest drain hole in the world.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

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

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.