A newspaper building that made radio history.

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.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

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

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.