Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

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

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

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

A unique piece of graffiti offers a little slice of local history and mystery.

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

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

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

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

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

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

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

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