A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

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

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

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

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

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

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.