This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

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

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

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

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

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

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.