One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Believed by many to be the oldest surviving public monument in the United States.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

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