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

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

Antiques by the Bay.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

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

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.