Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

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

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.