Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

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

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

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

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.