The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

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

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.