A replica of the first public theater built in California.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

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

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

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

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.

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

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.