Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

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

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

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

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

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

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

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