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

This 75-year-old Shakespearean sculpture is painted by a local artist for every season.

Oldest building in California still in use.

This park is home to well over 100 handmade birdhouses.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

These unusual houses look like giant boats that washed ashore on a residential street.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

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

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

This redwood is a historic landmark, a town’s namesake, and the dancing sideline symbol of Stanford University.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.