A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

One of the oldest adobe structures in Northern California.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

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

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

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