Sausalito, California
The Bay Model
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
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Sausalito, California
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.
West Hollywood, California
Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.
San Jose, California
The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.
Long Beach, California
The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.
Calabasas, California
A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.
Beverly Hills, California
An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.
Oakland, California
Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.
Pacific Grove, California
Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.
San Francisco, California
Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.
Berkeley, California
A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.
Carlsbad, California
The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.
Pioneertown, California
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
McKittrick, California
Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
Little River, California
A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.
San Quentin, California
This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Pasadena, California
A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.
Berkeley, California
A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.
Oakland, California
The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.
San Francisco, California
A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.
Santa Rosa, California
A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.
Daly City, California
A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.