This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

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

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

Explore an early California pioneer's rancho hidden in LA's manufacturing hinterland.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

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

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

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.