Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Antiques by the Bay.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.