A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Celebrating the accomplishments of Black firefighters in Los Angeles.

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

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.