This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

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

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.