Telegraph Avenue has a long history of attracting the Bay Area's most eccentric, eclectic, and electric minds. Here extremes battle each other: Berkeley engineers face street punks who face intellectuals who face raving derelicts, all in the densest collection of fiercely independent bookstores, music stores, and cafes in California. It's home to several "institutions" such as Moe's Books, Shakespeare & Co, Amoeba Records, and Rasputin Records (just to name a few), and visitors can find obscure LPs and hard-to-find books in a setting where the locals sport everything from Mohawks to turtlenecks. Also check out the dozen or so cheap and delicious restaurants and pizza joints that have kept students from starving to death for decades. Buy a trinket or a piece of handmade jewelry on one of Telegraph's art stalls, which take over the street on Sundays in a weekly arts fair.