The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

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

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

A historic office and commercial building located in the heart of downtown San Francisco.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.