George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

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

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.