Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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

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

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

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

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.