It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

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

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

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

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

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

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).