Bodie

Church in Bodie ghost town

Remarkably well preserved ghost town, developed during the Californian gold rush in 1876.

Petroglyph Point

Petroglyph Point at Lava Beds National Monument

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.

Chumash Painted Cave

Chumash Painted Cave, California

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

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

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.

The Chandelier Tree

Chandelier Tree, California

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.