Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.