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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

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

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

Visit the monolithic tomb of America's most famous general.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A historic lighthouse steeped in rumors of ghost and pirate stories.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.