Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

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

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

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

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

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

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

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

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

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The three biggest silent film stars once shot iconic scenes here.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.