A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

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

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

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

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

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

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

"You don't need a rocket scientist to build a steam engine, but we've got one." -Museum docent on the credentials of a restoration volunteer.