Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.