A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

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

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

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

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.