The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.