One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

This historic library honors the legacy of the British Empire's first children's librarian.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

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."

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.