This 19th century train workshop is a treasure trove of railroad history.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

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

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.