The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Mine your own precious stones.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

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