A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

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

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

The final resting place of a woman who never gave up on love.