Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

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

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).