A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

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

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

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.