Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

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

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.