I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

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

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

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

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.