Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

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

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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

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

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This Brazilian Lady Liberty is one of the few replicas that was actually made by the original designer.

Plagued by riots, celebrity injuries and a tragic death, this amusement park has been demolished.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

An art museum with an eclectic design and a scandalous past.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.