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

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

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

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

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

Half of a house.

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

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

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

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

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.