The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

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

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

The stone walls of a home built to withstand a California wildfire still stand after more than a century.

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

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.