Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The Westin St. Francis, San Francisco, California

The Wave Organ, an acoustic sculpture in San Francisco, California

The Weaverville Joss House, or temple, now a California State Historic Park, in Weaverville, a popular tourist destination in the Whiskeytown-Shasta National Recreation Area, northwest of Redding, California

The Wave Organ, San Francisco Bay, California

The West Walker Motel located in Coleville in northern Mono County in California's Antelope Valley

The Winship Building on Main Street in Napa, California, was designed by Luther Turton, a locally favored architect, and built in 1888

The wine-cellar entrance at Del Dotto Estate Winery and Caves at St. Helena in California's Napa Valley

The Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California

The yacht basin on Lake Oroville, above the city of the same name. The reservoir was created by damming the Feather River

The Ziggurat office building in Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County

This branch library in Dunsmuir in north-central California features a distinctive glass-block window

This is obviously not the stereotypical sun-parched summer day in Death Valley. Snow dots the ground amid a field of cacti along the dead-end road to a playa known as the "Racetrack," a dry lakebed known for its rocks that mysteriously move, from time to time, along the surface

This is obviously not the stereotypical sun-parched summer day in Death Valley

This temple, in the Butte County seat of Oroville, was built in 1863 to serve the largest community of Chinese north of Sacramento, California

This restaurant sign is not found in a roadside location out in the country but in downtown Napa, California

This one-room schoolhouse in Pine Grove, California, is now the Red Schoolhouse, a live-music venue

Tiburon Peninsula, San Francisco, California

Tiburon, Marin County, California

Ticket box at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara, California

Thunderbird Motel sign in Bishop, a small town in Inyo County, California, at the northern end of the sweeping Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Mountains

To commemorate the founding of the Napa Valley's original mineral-water company, the Calistoga Co. in the early 2000s commissioned Arcata, California, kinetic artists Ken Beidleman and June Moxon to produce this larger-than-life sculpture on the Silverado Trail in California's Napa Valley Physical d

Tommy's Joynt, at Van Ness and Geary, on Route 101, San Francisco, California

Top of swing ride at the 2012 California State Fair held in Sacramento, California

Tony's Cable Car Restaurant, 2300 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, California

Top of Mammoth ski area

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Tower Theatre, a Sacramento landmark, built in 1938, that is famous for its neon displays

Traffic on Interstate 405, Los Angeles, California

Tower bridge in Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County

Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad car. Dunsmuir, California

Tranquil lake scene in Land Park, near the zoo and Fairytale Town theme park in Sacramento, California's capital city

Train cars at Rail Road Park, an unusual motel and resort complex in which guests may opt to stay and sleep in a caboose or other restored, antique railroad coach. Dunsmuir, California

Train across the desert near Barstow, California

Train in front of a grain elevator in California

Tram at the San Francisco International Airport in California

Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse in Trinidad, California

Transformers in Titanic store in Venice, a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California

Trees along Route 1 in Northern California

Trees at Manzanar War Relocation Center, California

Tree stump bear sculpture in the town of Volcano, California, named for its setting in a bowl-shaped valley that early miners thought was caused by a volcano. The early morning fog rising from the valley floor only reinforced that belief

Trolley on Market Street in San Francisco, California

Trolly on Market Street in San Francisco, California

Trompe l'oeil mural by artist Richard Haas outside the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas

Turret of "Bishop's Palace," also known as Gresham's Castle, an ornate Victorian-style house, located on Broadway and 14th Street in the East End Historic District of Galveston, Texas

Turtle at the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California

Twisted tree in the desert near the Salton Sea, California

Twomey Winery in Napa Valley, California

Twin Lakes in the Inyo National Forest near Mammoth Lakes, California

Twin Lakes is located in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains near the town of Mammoth Lakes, California

Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park is a volcanic canyon 600 feet deep and a half-mile across

U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Galveston, Texas

Union Trust Building, San Francisco, California

Union Square, San Francisco, California

Unique public bench in Ferndale, California

Unique art sculpture in Crescent City, California

United Christian Centers, Locke Unit located in Locke, an unincorporated community in the Sacramento/San Joaqin River Delta in California

Union Station interior, Los Angeles, California

Untitled mural by Lango located in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve and Ecological Reserve, approximately 1,000 acres of open space in California