Places CPTSchnuck Wants to Go

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A museum dedicated to restoring vintage aircraft, located at a working airport.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.