The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

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

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.