A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

This seaside production studio was built to film 'Titanic' and has been the wet set of choice for other Hollywood productions since.

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

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.