Isaac Newton's former home, where the famous apple tree still stands.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

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

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.

The perfect spot for a picnic, right next to a giant ballistic missile.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.