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Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

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

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

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

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.