This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

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

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

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

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

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

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

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

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

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

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

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.