With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A sun-filled museum featuring an ever-rotating collection of classic and exotic cars.

This medieval village/restaurant perpetually celebrates the year 1376.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

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

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.