For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

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

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

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."

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

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.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

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

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

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.