Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."