This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

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

Handmade treasures from around the world.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

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

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

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

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.