The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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

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

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

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

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

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.