Places bluestargirl Wants to Go

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

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

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

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

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

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

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.