Places CoolCrab Wants to Go

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

This teeny-tiny park built by a San Francisco man in 1962 is mostly stairs.

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

This charming fountain honors Felix Salten, the creator of the iconic storybook deer.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

This castle ruin in the middle of nowhere is a gem for wildlife enthusiasts.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

Part of this hotel resides in Switzerland, the other in France, and the border splits the honeymoon suite.

The final resting place of a young stagecoach robber who refused mercy.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.