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

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

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

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Gouged in the mountain to make stage coach access easier through the Fremont Pass.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

Etched into a dry lake bed, this massive directional indicator is accurate without magnets.