A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

This unique formation appears as though an asteroid landed on the forest.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A giant fiberglass Muffler Man found new life as a rodeo guardian.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.