An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

The smallest country in the world.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

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.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.