Aptos, California
SS Palo Alto
This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.
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Aptos, California
This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.
San Jose, California
This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.
Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Roosevelt, Arizona
This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.
Rimrock, Arizona
This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This comprehensive collection features Native American artifacts dating back centuries.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Hurricane, Utah
A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.
Utah
The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Leeds, Utah
A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.
Lee Vining, California
A new monument to an old grave that was uncovered during the rebuilding of a California ghost town.
San Francisco, California
Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.
Napa, California
Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.
Calistoga, California
The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.
Santa Rosa, California
A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.
Sebastopol, California
Home to an apple tree that can produce 25 different varieties of fruit.
Mill Valley, California
Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.
Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, California
This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.
Sausalito, California
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
Monterey, California
The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.
Monterey, California
The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.