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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

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