Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

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

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.