A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.