The 14th mission in the California chain was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén in 1797 and named for St. Joseph. The church here is a faithful reconstruction of the mission's first permanent adobe church, completed in 1809 but toppled by a massive earth..

The first urban National Wildlife Refuge in the US sprawls across 30,000 acres of salt marsh, tidal sloughs, mudflats and rolling hills at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. More than 280 species of waterfowl, shorebirds and migratory birds live,..