This historic graveyard was partially paved over to create a streetcar line.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Founded by a high school teacher, this poetry magazine became a center for all things literary.

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

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

"The Star Factory" cranked out Hollywood stars like nobody's business.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

This vintage car parts store is also a museum devoted to a squat little gem of automotive history.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.