A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

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

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

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

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

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

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

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

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

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.