Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.