Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

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

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

Home to vintage vehicles and local artifacts, this museum also houses a rare taxidermy specimen.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.