Places 3toe Wants to Go

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.