In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

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

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

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