A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

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

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

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