Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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

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

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A large instrument played by the wind.

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

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Antiques by the Bay.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.