Former 1954 Del Mar Train Station now serves signature cocktails and delightful culinary treats, and still operates as a Metro stop.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

An Airy Would-Be Solution to a Housing Shortage.

A landmark for a trailblazer for female architects and the designer of one of the most famous and opulent buildings in California.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Where the line between entertainment and aerospace blurs.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.