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

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

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

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

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

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

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

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.