Bodie
Remarkably well preserved ghost town, developed during the Californian gold rush in 1876.
Petroglyph Point
Large sandstone outcropping covered with one of the largest displays of native American art in North America, with more than 5,000 carvings. This site is sacred to local Modoc people.
Little Petroglyph Canyon
Canyon with more than 20,000 petroglyphs, created by Coso people.
Chumash Painted Cave
Small sandstone cave with red, white and black paintings that depict the cosmology of Chumash people. Age is unknown, between 200 and 1000 years.
Racetrack Playa
Dry lake in Death Valley, where the "sailing stones" have left traces in the mud. Stones are moved by wind in wet mud together with thin ice sheets at the moment when ice sheets are melting.
Bumpass Hell
Geothermal field with hot springs, fumaroles, mud pots. Visually the most impressive geothermal area near Lassen volcano.
Port Orford Cedar near Hiouchi
The tallest known Port Orford Cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana), 81.08 m tall, discovered in 2009. Diameter of the trunk is 280.4 cm.
Sugar Pine at Sierra Nevada mountains
Tallest known sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), 83.5 m tall, discovered in 2015.
Sycamore in Santa Barbara (Sister Witness Tree)
Enormous sycamore (Platanus racemosa) with a circumference of 15.9 m, 28.65 m height.
The Chandelier Tree
Enormous coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.) with large 1.83 x 2.64 m hole carved in the 1930s – car can drive through it. Height of the tree – 84 m.