Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

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

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

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

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

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

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

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

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

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

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.