Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

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

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

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.