A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

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

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.