The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

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."

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.