Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The geographic center point of the Golden State.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

The world’s oldest active sailing ship.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

California's first suspension bridge.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.