An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

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.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Antiques by the Bay.

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