Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

A popular East Bay hiking trail houses the ruins of a sanitarium that was destroyed in a blaze 50 years ago.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

This retro diner claims to be the birthplace of poutine.

Classic game cookery takes center stage at what's widely considered London's oldest restaurant.

Check the time in 145 countries at once with this East German relic.

The world's longest known cave system.

Giant steel and concrete dinosaurs near Route 66 invite passerbys into a mineral shop.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Soak in the life’s work of one of the country’s foremost modern artists.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.