A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

Antiques by the Bay.

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

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

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

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

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.