
Established in 1855, the Point Bonita Lighthouse was the second lighthouse on the Pacific Coast of the United States. (The first was the lighthouse on Alcatraz.) Although it’s only open nine hours a week, the Point Bonita Lighthouse is one of the lesser known sights of San Francisco. While I was lucky enough to see the […]

Home to the oldest lighthouse on the West Coast and an abandoned prison, Alcatraz Island is now managed by the National Park Service. Each year, more than 1.3 million people visit “The Rock”, the federal penitentiary that once housed America’s most notorious criminals. Here are three shots of Alcatraz from my August trip to San […]

The Bay Bridge opened for traffic in November 1936 and has one of the longest spans in the United States. Nearly 240,000 vehicles travel across the bridge daily. A replacement bridge built alongside the original opened in September 2013. It cost over $6.5 billion to build and is currently the world’s widest bridge. On a […]