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

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

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

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

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