It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

One of the oldest adobe structures in Northern California.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

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

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

While he no longer has an eatery to give him context, this off-brand Paul Bunyan still holds his giant hot dog with pride.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.