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

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

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.

Known as the "Hobbit Houses," these storybook homes look like they're straight out of the Shire.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

A classically trained chef makes beloved burritos inside a gas station.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

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

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.