Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

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

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

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

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.