San Francisco rests on the tip of a peninsula along the northern California coast; it's flanked by the San Francisco Bay to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The city is actually much ...

Discover San Francisco, one of the most iconic cities in the United States, in this virtual tour of its top attractions.

The map was drawn and signed almost exactly 252 years ago by a Spanish explorer named Miguel Costanso. The original manuscript map of coastal California is estimated to be worth between $600,000 ...

Those findings were based on how, in 1964, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake in Alaska sent a tsunami toward California and did heavy damage along the coast near San Francisco.