The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

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

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.