Places beaugunderson Wants to Go

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

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

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

This sci-fi gazebo located in a Washington power town is made from old bits of industrial electrical equipment.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

The crumbling remains of a gold mine that was operational in the 1930s.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

A former railroad trestle over Interstate 90 has been refurbished for non-motorized traffic on the Palouse to Cascades trail.

A large wind turbine installation in central Washington State is home to an extensive set of interpretive exhibits.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.