Places BeKa211 Wants to Go

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.

People can't get enough of these adorable Japanese photobooths.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.