A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

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

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.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

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

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

Russian history in San Francisco.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

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

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.