Places bananachan Wants to Go

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

One man's lifelong obsession with death.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.