Places 13rac1 Wants to Go

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

This unique formation appears as though an asteroid landed on the forest.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

You don't want to get caught in this trap--or do you?

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.