A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.