Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.