The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

A unique local art exhibit that has continued to grow since 1989.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

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

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

This nonsensical smiling boat shuttles passengers between two places they could've easily walked between.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The huge granite obelisk that towers over a small California town.