This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

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

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

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