A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

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

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

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

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.