Terra Mia offers blank pottery pieces -- everything from mugs to plates to butter dishes -- and provides the art supplies; you design and paint them however you like. [more...]

Ex-garbage dump turned park and artist's gallery, a visit to the Albany Bulb (sometimes called the Albany Knob) will have your date spinning in [more...]

Trains are exciting, sexy and cool: everything you want your date to think YOU are. Visit the Niles Canyon Railway Museum in Fremont and hope that some of those stellar qualities rub off on you.

Take a trip to the Egyptian-themed Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose. Because Egyptian studies aren't just for old guys in funny helmets anymore.

The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento has some phenomenal work by and about great women. "For we look back through our mothers [more...]

Visit the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento for more train exhibits gathered in one place than you can shake a conductor's hat at.

The Angel Island Immigration Station, once the gateway to the West for thousands of immigrants, is now an excellent museum. Wander the exhibits and [more...]

The Randall Museum provides nature- and science-themed exhibits such as examining life in San Francisco after the 1906 quake, astronomy nights, and drop-in classes.

Check out the gallery exhibits at FIDM, the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandise. Showcases interesting stuff like new perfumes.

Local artist Sheperd Fairy, creator of the popular Obey Giant sticker campaign, frequently has art shows and they're always worth attending. Watch the website for notifications.

At the California Academy of Sciences, you can "explore, explain and protect the natural world." It's a Noah's Ark of animals from every species in California -- [more...]

Sure, you've got the wine, the flowers, the candles and the romantic music, but there's just one thing you forgot to make this date perfect. That's right: dinosaurs. Visit the Lawrence Hall of Science to [more...]

Local pottery studio Color Me Mine provides blank pottery canvases that allow you to discover your inner painter. The store fires the mug or plate when you're [more...]

U.C. Berkeley's large and lovely campus is studded with fascinating little statues. Especially check out the saber toothed tiger over by Euclid Avenue -- it's the scariest piece of stone you'll ever pose for pictures with. Even if [more...]

The gallery at 111 Minna always has a good show; add live DJs and drinks and you've got yourself a party.

Visit the Ping Pong Gallery for modern art that's actually fun to look at. Opening nights of shows usually offer free drinks, so come for the alcohol and stay for the neon sculpture of Patsy Klein.

The Musee Mecanique is full of bizarre old arcade pieces: mechanical fortune tellers, coin-op pianos, orchestrions, etc. Sadly no longer located on the cliff [more...]

Pay a visit the newly-revamped De Young Museum. Can't stomach the entrance fee (or the art)? Just stand outside and admire the copper facade; you can tell your [more...]

San Francisco is home to one of the world's great hands-on science museums: the Exploratorium. Not just a great place for school field trips, the Exploratorium [more...]