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

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

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

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

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

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

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.