San Francisco, California
Spreckels Temple of Music
An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
San Francisco, California
Three Gems
A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.
San Francisco, California
Faery Door
San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco, California
Japanese Tea Garden
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
Prayer Book Cross
A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco, California
Portals of the Past
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Park Bison
San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.
San Francisco, California
Beach Chalet WPA Murals
Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
Fort Miley Batteries
Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
Land’s End Octagon House
The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.
San Francisco, California
Ruins of the Sutro Baths
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Jose, California
Drawbridge
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Permanently Closed
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Lava House
An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.
Belvedere Tiburon, California
Lyford's Tower
Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.
Sausalito, California
Marin Headlands
Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.
Sausalito, California
The Bay Model
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.
San Rafael, California
Marin County Civic Center
Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.
Richmond, California
Point Molate
Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."
Richmond, California
Winehaven
Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.
Richmond, California
Richmond Shipyards
Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.
Olema, California
1906 Earthquake Fence
'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.
Inverness, California
Point Reyes Lighthouse
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
