A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

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

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

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

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

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.