Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

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

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

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

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.