This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

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

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

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

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

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.