A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Antiques by the Bay.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.