A gathering of green robots at the Googleplex.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

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

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

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

Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

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

Antiques by the Bay.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

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

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.