Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

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

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.