A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

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

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

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

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

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

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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