Places jilliangbradshaw5 Wants to Go

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

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

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

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

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

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

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.