Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House On Haunted Hil" to a robot hunter's pad.