Places Alex SF Wants to Go

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

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

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

Half-size replica of the Taj Mahal.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.

An architectural marvel that dates back to the zenith of Indian architecture.