An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

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

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

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

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

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Half of a house.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.