Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

Its vast collection details the history of this Santa Barbara beach town.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

A monument to the legacy of the man who created Spongebob Squarepants at the school where his passion for art and marine biology began.

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

From silent movie theater to rock &roll palace and beyond.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

A Community Cornerstone.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

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

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

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.