Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

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

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

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.