This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

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