A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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.

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

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

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

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

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

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

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

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

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.