Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

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

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

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

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

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

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

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.

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

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The enormous appendage offers spectacular views of Colombia's Huila Department.

Canada's oldest railway tunnel is illuminated in a rainbow of color as it passes under the streets of this small city.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.