San Rafael, California
420 Louis Pasteur Statue
Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.
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San Rafael, California
Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.
San Quentin, California
This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
San Francisco, California
The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.
Kingsburg, California
A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.
Ferndale, California
Pay your respects to three butterfat queens.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Fort Bragg, California
Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.
Little River, California
A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Crescent City, California
This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.
Charles City, Virginia
John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.
Petersburg, Virginia
A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
Petersburg, Virginia
An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.
Hopewell, Virginia
For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.
Richmond, Virginia
The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.
Richmond, Virginia
This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.
Richmond, Virginia
This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.
Corolla, North Carolina
One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.