Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

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

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

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

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

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

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.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

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

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.