A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A large instrument played by the wind.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

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

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.