An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

Oldest building in California still in use.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

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

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.