In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

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

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

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

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.