An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

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

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

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

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

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

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

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

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

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.