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

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

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

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

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

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

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.