The Optics and Calibration Lab at San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point hosts what was once the world’s tallest industrial lift, now abandoned and the site of a superfund cleanup effort (photo copyright Jon Haeber). See also incredible photos of the same escalator by Todd Lapin.
In Coney Island, we saw some of the most bizarre rides invented. […]

The Jackling House in Woodside, owned by Steve Jobs. The historic Spanish-Colonial home’s fate, designed by George Washington Smith, is in limbo and is the centerpiece of a heated debate in the State Supreme Court over historic preservation and public vs. private rights.

In 1926, George Washington Smith designed a grand 14-bedroom, […]