This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

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

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

An artist's vision for connectivity spans seven continents and 16 countries.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."