The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

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

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

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

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

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

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.