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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Santa Rosa

5 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Santa Rosa, California

Updated October 7, 2021

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Santa Rosa, California

Charles M. Schulz Museum

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.
Cyclisk stretches 65 feet straight into the air

Santa Rosa, California

Cyclisk - Santa Rosa Monument

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

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Crane Melon Barn

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Santa Rosa, California

Grave of Robert L. Ripley

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.
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Great West End & Railroad Square Handcar Regatta. (freiheit/Flickr)

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Great West End Regatta

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.
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California Carnivores

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."
6 miles from Santa Rosa

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Patrick Amiot's Sonoma County Yard Art

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.
6 miles from Santa Rosa

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Santa Rosa, California

Crane Melon Barn

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.
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Stories About Santa Rosa

Luther Burbank (and his hat) among the cacti.

The Thorny Tale of America's Favorite Botanist and His Spineless Cacti

Luther Burbank dreamed of deserts filled with cow food.
by Anne Ewbank
April 24, 2019
Luther Burbank, at one of his experimental farms in 1901.

America's Greatest Horticulturist Left Behind a Plum Mystery

Frida Kahlo painted him. Thomas Edison admired him. Now Rachel Spaeth is trying to decode him.
by Anne Ewbank
April 30, 2018
Ash can be silky like fine sand, or chunkier, and dark as charcoal.

Making Pottery From the Ashes of the Sonoma Wildfires

A ceramicist is offering people who lost their homes a way to remember—and look to the future.
by Jessica Leigh Hester
February 14, 2018

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