Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A huge work of Burning Man-inspired outsider art on the grounds of a California winery.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.