A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

This California museum is home to one of the largest collections related to the 'Treasure Island' author.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

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.

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

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

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

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

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."