Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

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."

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.