A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

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

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

Oldest building in California still in use.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.