A rich history stashed behind an unassuming door in the heart of Gold Country.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

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

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

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

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

A simple statue outside a California Amtrak station honors the overlooked contributions of the "silent spikes."

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.