Places Russell Nelson Wants to Go

The original version of Porto's most famous sandwich is just as good here as it was a century ago.

It may no longer take overnight guests, but the Martin still makes out-of-towners feel at home—just like it has for the past century.

Since 1985, this Victorian home has operated as a museum filled top to bottom with American-made glassware.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.

A fascinating and comprehensive look at the evolution of medical practice in the Sacramento Valley since the mid-1800s.

The road plays 30 seconds of the Marine’s Hymn when driving over the grooved pavement.

When California condors were hovering on the brink of extinction, this recovery program was charged with helping the birds thrive again.

Traditional, pre-Hispanic food is served alongside classic favorites in this family-owned Mexican restaurant.

This museum honors the farming past of the “Salad Bowl of the World.”

This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.

In a forgotten Central Valley industrial park lies the busiest railroad junction in California.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

Sporting Brutalist architecture, this school is hidden amid a quiet suburban neighborhood.

Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.

A small gallery in the home of the founding father of Mata Ortiz pottery.

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

This historic roadhouse has many tales to tell of San Francisco's early history.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.