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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

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

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

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

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.