Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

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

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

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

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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