A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

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

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

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

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

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

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."