A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

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 abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Old car parts and assorted materials get turned into one man's mechanical treasures on the side streets of Cleveland.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.