A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

If you are looking for a used Russian battery, Chinese Ham Radio or other electronic oddities this Flea Market is a good place to start.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

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

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

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

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

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

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.