A large instrument played by the wind.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

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.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

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

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

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

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

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

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

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.