An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

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

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Oldest building in California still in use.

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

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

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.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

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

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

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

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