Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

This restaurant's marvelous musical machines include a self-playing violin.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

This unique graffiti art from the 1940s has become a staple of this local landscape in the remote California desert.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

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

Thousands of acres of beautiful wild landscape in the Great Basin.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.