From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

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

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

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

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

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

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

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.