An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

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 pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.