Oakland's allure is its diversity. Here you can find a Nigerian clothing store, a beautifully renovated Victorian home, a Buddhist meditation center, and a lively salsa club, all within the same block. Oakland's multifaceted nature reflects its colorful and often tumultuous history. Once a …
10 miles NE of San Francisco Berkeley is famous as the home of the University of California at Berkeley, which is world-renowned for its academic standards, 17 Nobel Prize winners (seven are active staff), and protests that led to the most famous student riots in U.S. history. Today, there's still …