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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

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

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.