Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

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

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

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

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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.

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

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

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

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

A tribute to one man's legacy of improving the accordion's reputation.