Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.