It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

This giant spider sculpture made from the iconic car is one giant visual pun.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

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

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.