The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

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

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.