A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Wool processing mill in an unlikely location.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.