This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

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

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

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

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.