First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

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

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.