Monterey, California
Dennis the Menace Playground
This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.
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Monterey, California
This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.
San Jose, California
It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.
Pasadena, California
This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.
Hacienda Heights, California
An unexpected and peaceful oasis on a hillside.
Oakland, California
A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.
El Cajon, California
Educational foundation that teaches the powers of fourth dimensional physical properties.
San Rafael, California
Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.
Long Beach, California
One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.
Healdsburg, California
This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.
San Francisco, California
Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.
West Sacramento, California
A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.
Winters, California
This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.
Huntington Beach, California
Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.
Niland, California
An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.
Monterey, California
This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.
Riverside, California
This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.
Fort Bragg, California
Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.
Oroville, California
Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.
Sausalito, California
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Santee, California
A Biblically-based Natural History Museum.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
Hiding amid the largest camellia collection in the country lies a charming children's maze, donated by a secret admirer.
Davenport, California
Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.
Grass Valley, California
Established in 1853, this crumbling cemetery sits forgotten on the corner of Church and Chapel in Gold Country.