A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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 still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.