This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

A Community Cornerstone.

Erroneously called the world's tallest flagpole, this landmark is devoted to "good neighborliness."

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.