Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

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

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