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

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

What began as a prominent Burning Man art piece is now an iconic symbol of downtown Reno.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.