A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

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

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

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

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

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.