The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

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

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

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

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A large instrument played by the wind.