This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

Little island known for its massive beachfront "flowerpot" pillars.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

An independent bookstore and press with a large collection of local and English-language literature.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

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

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.