This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin briefly ran their fledgling company from this Silicon Valley garage.

Allegedly haunted by Walt Disney himself, this inconspicuous lamp is always kept lit in his honor.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

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

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.