The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

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

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

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

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

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Hidden inside a gift shop that doubles as a museum, this gargantuan yo-yo can only be operated by crane.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.