The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

An urban laboratory.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.