The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

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

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.