Places Arqui408 Wants to Go

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Some charming, but sadly, unloved animal statues call this park home.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.