Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

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

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

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A stone troll guards the hike that leads to this waterfall.

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.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

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

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

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

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