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

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

The last orange grove of the San Fernando Valley is owned and protected by CSU Northridge.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

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

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.