Places mleewalters88 Wants to Go

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

This fertility idol of questionable authenticity inspired an iconic Indiana Jones artifact.

The world's oldest soul food restaurant is also one of its best.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

National Mall monument to the inventor of the screw propeller.

This nondescript row house in downtown Washington, D.C., was the home of a very secretive group for well over a century

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

The old building has been restored to its 1907 appearance.

The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.