This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

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

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

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

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

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

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

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

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

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

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

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.