An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A large instrument played by the wind.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.