A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

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

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

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

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

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.