A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.

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

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

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

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

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

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

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

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

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

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.