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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

Antiques by the Bay.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

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.

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

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

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

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

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

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

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.