Places Super Trampoline Wants to Go

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

"The Hoppiest Place in the World" holds the world’s largest collection of bunny memorabilia and is a singular testament of a couple's devotion to all things Leporidae.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

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

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

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

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

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

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

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

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

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

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

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

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