A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.