A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This collection of hand fans doubles as a history of femininity.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

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.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

The headquarters of the semiconductor giant has a 10,000-square-foot museum.