Places nicoleeellan Wants to Go

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

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

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

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

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

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

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

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

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

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.