A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.