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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.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.