A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

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

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.