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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

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

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

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

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.