It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

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

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

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

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.