This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Half of a house.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

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

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

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

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This memorial to World War II's fallen airmen shows us the movements of the stars that once guided them.