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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

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

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

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

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.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.