This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

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

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.