A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

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

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.