The longest burning light bulb in the world.

An archive of nearly every day of Buckminster Fuller's life.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

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

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

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

Antiques by the Bay.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A large instrument played by the wind.