California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

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

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

A large instrument played by the wind.

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

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

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

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

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

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.