One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

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

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

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

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

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

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

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

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

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

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

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.