A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.

This large pile of traveler-curated rocks by the dry lakebed is a longstanding tradition on the Old Mojave Road.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.