A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

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

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

An abandoned lot littered with concrete debris was once the home of the world's first female railroad president.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."