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

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

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

California's oldest existing theater building hosted an impressive cast of celebrities, including hosting Mark Twain's first lecture.

The oldest continuously operating Catholic school west of the Mississippi.

The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

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

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.