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

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

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

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.