Places Cienna Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

This trailside hut was built in the late 1930s as a memorial to a young hiker.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

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

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

A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.