Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

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

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

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.

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

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.