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

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.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

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

If you are looking for a used Russian battery, Chinese Ham Radio or other electronic oddities this Flea Market is a good place to start.

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

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.