A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.