Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

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

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

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

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

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

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The largest drain hole in the world.