The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.