Santa Rosa, California
Charles M. Schulz Museum
A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.
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Santa Rosa, California
A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.
Bodega Bay, California
A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."
Calistoga, California
California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.
Nice, California
An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.
Point Arena, California
The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.
Ukiah, California
One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.
Fort Bragg, California
Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Whitethorn, California
A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Phillipsville, California
A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.
Piercy, California
An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.
Myers Flat, California
A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Gerlach, Nevada
A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.
Fallon, Nevada
A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.