Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

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

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.