This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

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

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.