California

On Mount Sutro in San Francisco stands the 977 foot Mount Sutro TV Tower. To withstand earthquakes the steel tower is built on foundations made from 15 million pounds of concrete. Ground level photos of the tower can be found…

Dodger Stadium is home to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Apparently everyone drives in L.A. so the stadium has parking for 16,000 cars on 21 terraced lots raised to the same elevations as the six different seating levels (so you don't…

In Los Angeles' Griffith Park sits the Griffith Observatory. Opened in 1935 the observatory has featured in numerous movies such as 'Bowfinger', 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle', 'Dragnet' and the climax of James Dean film 'Rebel Without a Cause'. Thanks: Scott…

This is Swank Farms Corn Maze near Hollister, CA. Interestingly it's a more recent image than most of the other pictures we've been able to date so far. The date? Kind of hard to miss... 😉 This year's corn maze…

This is a US Navy hovercraft base at Camp Pendelton, California. You can see some of the hovercraft parked up, and there is a massive ramp that goes down to the beach for them to get straight out onto the…

Yesterday the staff of Google Sightseeing (and everyone else by the queues) went to see Star Wars Episode III, so it seems a good time to post George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch in San Rafael, California. In the middle of the…