Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

The American rainmaker and a burst dam.

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

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.