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

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Once strictly off-limits, this lower level housing curious and priceless vehicles of the Petersen Automotive Museum is now open to the public.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

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

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.