Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

This California eatery has made a name for itself by embracing Asia's rich history of eating bugs.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

Making Ice Cream Hip Since 2008.

A cow in the road might subvert the flow of traffic but this one's above it all, quite literally.

Hidden in one of the skyscrapers on Bunker Hill, this museum features an 1895 stagecoach and peers into California’s gold-lined history.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

It would be a crime to miss it.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

A cult following celebrates the legend that belies this curious podiatrists' office sign which has worked its way into song, literature, animation, and the visual arts.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

A tribute to long time Venice Beach resident, artist and actor Dennis Hopper.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

The last Americana on Route 66.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.