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

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft perfume fragrances.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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