Places deepblue Wants to Go

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

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

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

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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 pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

Launchpad for the US military’s dead mouse operation to battle millions of snakes.

Located on Guam's south shore, this small cave is named for an ancient and powerful Chamorro Chief.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.