High plateaus and beautiful waterfalls frame this ecologically significant nature preserve.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

A collection of decorative eggs to admire in the off-season.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

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

Art and a pun, all in one.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Half of a house.

This majestic building, where Brazil's coffee brokers once bought and sold beans, now houses a coffee museum.