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

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

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

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

French prisoners carved these boats from the bones of their meat rations.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.