Places antsbe Wants to Go

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

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

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

The last four extravagant street signs of London's historic banking street.

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.

The lab where the scientist made his groundbreaking discoveries is preserved on the basement floor of the Faraday Museum.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.

London's old-school healing garden.