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

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

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

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.