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.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

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

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

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.