The oldest experimental corn field in America is still creating better ways to grow crops.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

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

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.