Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

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

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

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

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.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

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