Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

A beautiful memorial tells the story of a formerly enslaved woman whose kindness shaped a burgeoning city.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

This museum honors the first Spanish land grant in California which is still in the hands of the original owner's family.

This 38-year old fish became a casualty of changing trends.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

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

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.