The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

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

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

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

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.