A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

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

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.