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

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

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

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

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.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.