The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

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

No one's quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

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

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.