Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

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