Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.

Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.