This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

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

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.