This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A Community Cornerstone.

The American Home, Re-imagined.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A ghost town in a remote corner of Oregon hosts a touching tribute to Sacagawea’s son.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.