This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Half of a house.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

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

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

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

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

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

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

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.