Shandon, California
James Dean Memorial Junction
A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.
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Shandon, California
A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.
Yosemite National Park, California
The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.
Solvang, California
Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.
Alameda, California
This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.
San Francisco, California
The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
Davis, California
Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.
Los Gatos, California
An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.
San Francisco, California
Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.
San Francisco, California
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
Colma, California
The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.
Pacifica, California
The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.
San Francisco, California
The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.
Sunol-Midtown, California
A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.
San Jose, California
For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.
Pacific Grove, California
Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.
San Francisco, California
A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
San Francisco, California
The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
A monument to the love people have for their pets.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
San Francisco, California
The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.
San Francisco, California
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.