Places Deadleavesx Wants to Go

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

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

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

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

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.