Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

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

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

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

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.