The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

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

This unique formation appears as though an asteroid landed on the forest.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

The first lookout in Yosemite.