The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

The simple auditorium that launched a pop icon's career into the stratosphere.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

The largest and most well-preserved petroglyph site in the Verde Valley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

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

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

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

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

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