San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

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

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

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.