A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

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

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

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

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

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

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

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

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.