The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

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

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

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

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."