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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

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

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

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

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

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

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

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

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.