The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.