This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

The bears of Bern have been a city highlight for over 500 years.

A cablecar-station-turned-revolving restaurant with 360-degree views of the Swiss skyline.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

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

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

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

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

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.