A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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.

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

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

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

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

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Chewing gum tycoon's memorial lies perched over wife's botanical gardens on Santa Catalina Island.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Because there's no place like home.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.