Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

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

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

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

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

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.