The Great Tidepool of John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" is at Point Pinos, Pacific Grove.

Prundale horses and roosters.

Spreckels, the site of a major plant for processing sugar beets in the era of "Big Sugar." The almost ghostly little town is off the beaten path and a relic of an earlier time.

Point Lobos and Monastery Beach south of Carmel on Highway 1.