Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

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

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

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

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

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

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.