Places superbjorn Wants to Go

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

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

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

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

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.

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

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

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.