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This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

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

An archive and museum with a mind-boggling collection of Shakespeare-related objects.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

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

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

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

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

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Wander through desolate oil fields littered with rigs.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.