San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Half of a house.

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

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A large instrument played by the wind.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.