Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

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

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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

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

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.