A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

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

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.