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.

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

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

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

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

Largest illuminated advertisement sign in the world.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

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

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Antiques by the Bay.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.