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

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

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

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

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

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

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