Gandhi Statue – San Francisco, California

Gandhi Statue – San Francisco, California

This Gandhi Statue is located in the Ferry Building on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, California. The statue was presented to the City of San Francisco and Citizens of the United States by the Gandhi Memorial International Foundation. The statue was dedicated on the 3rd of October in 1988 by Art Agnos, the then Mayor of the city of San Francisco

Hard Rock Cafe – San Francisco, California

Hard Rock Cafe – San Francisco, California

The Hard Rock Cafe in San Francisco, California is located at Pier 39 from where on gets fabulous views of Alcatraz, the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, the San Francisco Bay, and the City skyline, not to mention more than 110 stores, 11 full-service restaurants, and numerous fun-filled attractions. You can find the 45-acre, Pier 39 complex two blocks east of Fisherman’s Wharf

Au Coquelet Cafe – Berkeley, California

Au Coquelet Cafe – Berkeley, California

Au Coquelet Cafe is a coffee shop located on University Avenue in Berkeley, California. It’s front half is a coffee shop while the back half of the cafe serves as a restaurant. Au Coquelet is a popular meeting place for Berkeley residents and visitors of many different flavors. Open late at night, evenings commonly find UC Berkeley students studying amongst the bustling front section

Pacific Park – Santa Monica, California

Pacific Park – Santa Monica, California

Pacific Park is an oceanfront amusement park located in Santa Monica, California. The park (located on the Santa Monica Pier) looks directly out on the Pacific Ocean, in the direction of Catalina Island. There are a total of twelve rides in Pacific Park, including a Ferris wheel that provides a view of the Pacific Ocean and a roller coaster that circles the majority of the park

Universal Studios Hollywood – Los Angeles, California

Universal Studios Hollywood – Los Angeles, California

Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio and theme park in the unincorporated Universal City community of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood movie studios still in use. Its official marketing headline is “The Entertainment Capital of LA”, though during the summer it is often advertised as “The Coolest Place in LA.”

Lake Tahoe – California

Lake Tahoe – California

Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada range of the United States. At a surface elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m), it is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m), making it the USA’s second-deepest (the deepest is Crater Lake in Oregon)

Cupid’s Span Sculpture – Embarcadero, San Francisco

Cupid’s Span Sculpture – Embarcadero, San Francisco

Situated on the crest of Rincon Park’s northern knoll, Cupid’s Span is a depiction of a bow and arrow. Composed of fiberglass and steel, the sculpture stands approximately 60 feet tall and is 130-140 feet wide. The sculpture has an open design to provide a frame for the surrounding landscape. Cupid’s Span adds to Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s long list of famous large-scale civic sculptures

San Francisco City Hall – San Francisco, California

San Francisco City Hall – San Francisco, California

San Francisco City Hall, in its open space area in the city’s Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917. The structure’s dome is the fifth largest in the world. The present building is actually a replacement for an earlier City Hall that was completely destroyed during the 1906 earthquake.

Petersen Automotive Museum – Los Angeles, California

Petersen Automotive Museum – Los Angeles, California

The Petersen Automotive Museum is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. The museum is one of the world’s largest automotive museums. Founded on June 11, 1994 by Robert E. Petersen and his wife, Margie, the $40 million dollar Petersen Automotive Museum is owned and operated by the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation.

101 California Street building – San Francisco

101 California Street building – San Francisco

101 California Street is a 48-story office building completed in 1982 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 600 ft tower providing 1,200,000 sq ft of office space is bounded by California, Davis, Front & Pine Streets. The faceted cylindrical tower features a seven story, glass enclosed lobby and a granite plaza with flower beds and a fountain.

Malibu Hindu Temple – Calabasas, California

Malibu Hindu Temple – Calabasas, California

Malibu Hindu Temple, a temple of the Hindu god Venkateswara, built in 1981, is located in the city of Calabasas near Malibu, California in the Santa Monica Mountains. It is owned and operated by the Hindu Temple Society of Southern California. Built in the traditional South Indian style, it is frequented by followers of Hinduism in Southern California.

Doe Memorial Library – University of California at Berkeley

Doe Memorial Library – University of California at Berkeley

The Doe Memorial Library is the main library of the UC Berkeley Library System on the UC Berkeley campus. The library is named after its benefactor, Charles Franklin Doe, who was persuaded by the then President of the University of California, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, in 1904 to bequeath funds for its construction. It is located adjacent to the Bancroft Library.

Lombard Street – San Francisco, California

Lombard Street – San Francisco, California

Lombard Street is best known for the one-way section on Russian Hill in which the roadway has eight sharp turns (or switchbacks) that have earned the street the distinction of being the crookedest [most winding] street in the world. The switchback’s design was born out of necessity in order to reduce the hill’s natural 27% grade, which was too steep for most vehicles to climb.

Children’s Discovery Museum – San Jose, California

Children’s Discovery Museum – San Jose, California

Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM) is located on Woz Way in downtown San Jose, California. Woz Way is named after Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and who was the single largest private donor during the original capital campaign that funded the Museum. Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose has been ranked by Child Magazine as one of the top 10 children’s museums in the U.S.

Dolores Park – San Francisco

Dolores Park – San Francisco

Mission Dolores Park commonly called Dolores Park – and formerly known as Mission Park is a San Francisco, California, city park located in the neighborhood of Mission Dolores, at the western edge of the Mission District, which lies to the east of the park. To the west of the park is a hillside referred to as “Dolores Heights” or considered a part of the Castro neighborhood.

California State Capitol – Sacramento

California State Capitol – Sacramento

The California State Capitol sits in Sacramento, California, at the west end of Capitol Park. The grounds are framed by L Street to the north, N Street to the south, 10th Street to the west, and 15th Street to the east. The Capitol houses the California State Legislature and the Office of the Governor of California. The building was constructed in the Neoclassical architectural style between 1861 and 1874

Thorsen House – Berkeley

Thorsen House

Thorsen House was built in 1909 by William Randolph and Caroline Canfield Thorsen and designed by Henry and Charles Greene, of the renowned Pasadena firm of Greene & Greene. The House is considered as the last of four ultimate bungalows and is the only one located in Northern California. The Thorsen House can be toured throughout the week on an