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

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

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

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

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

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.