Places deepblue Wants to Go

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Built around 1723, this is the oldest surviving home in the U.S.'s oldest colonial city.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.