This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

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.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

The oldest structure in a beachside California city was built to serve eight students.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

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

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

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

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

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

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

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.