A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.