Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

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

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

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

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

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.