Detroit’s downtown castle is one of the oldest structures in the city.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

This Indiana walk of fame honors music legends with record-shaped plaques in the pavement.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

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

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

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

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

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.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

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

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.