This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

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

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

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

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

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

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

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

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.