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

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.

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

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

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

California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.