Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

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

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

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.