For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

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.

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

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

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

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

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

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

A youth-centric science center hides an industrial triumph.