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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The middle finger of modernity.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.