Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Antiques by the Bay.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

One of the oldest adobe structures in Northern California.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

Pasadena’s Stonehenge.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Come face to face with the ferocious visage of the serpent-headed mother goddess of the Aztecs.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

This colossal ancient sculpture of the monstrous Aztec rain god has a literally stormy history.

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.