The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.