Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

This functioning parish church is also the site of many concert performances due to its wonderful acoustics.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.