Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The magic's in the hole!

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Tel Aviv's popular neighborhood went though endless waves of transformation.

A stunning mosque owes its design to an Ottoman ruler nicknamed "the Butcher."

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.