Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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

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

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.