A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

A small research station sits at the summit of this mountain, which is one of the few U.S. peaks higher than 14,000 feet outside of the Sierra Nevada.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.