Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

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

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

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

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

An aviation relic that made coast-to-coast travel possible.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

This old KLM airplane cut into three parts was transformed into an eclectic airport gift shop.

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

Defaced since the early 80s, this bridge has become local icon to the metalheads and residents of the city.

This hands-on museum houses roughly 80 vintage pinball machines and arcade games.