Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

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

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

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

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

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

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

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