The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

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

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

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.