San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.