Places Armyofcoconuts Wants to Go

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A large instrument played by the wind.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.