This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

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

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

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

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

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

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

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.