The final resting place of a space program monolith.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

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

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

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

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.