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

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.