A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

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

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

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

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

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.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.