A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

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.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

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

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

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

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

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

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.