The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.