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Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

A newspaper building that made radio history.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

The final resting place of one of Hollywood’s most prolific and talented actors is on the grounds of a California Mission.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

The first attack on the continental U.S. during WWII occurred off the coast of a quiet California golf course.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Working mining and drilling equipment demonstrate 150 years of energy history.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.