A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

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

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

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.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.