The historic home of the pivotal political activist who led the Métis people in rebellion against the Canadian government.

Mexican food and folk art.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Home of the "Father of Forestry."

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Because there's no place like home.

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