This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

City Council meetings still happen in this historic building, impeccably preserved on the inside.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

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

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

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

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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