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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

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

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.