Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

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

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

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

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.