Places deichsel Wants to Go

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

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

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

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