Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

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

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

A man-made island in scenic 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.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.