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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Spitalfields' regal market goat is said to be a monument to the area's migrant population but most are pretty sure it's just a goat.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

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

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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