Places Emmett Wants to Go

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

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

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

A set of seven houses, each built in a style that represents a European country.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

Rejoice at Amsterdam's ‘pop temple,’ a former church reborn as a raucous music venue.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.