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

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

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

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

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

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

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

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

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.