Places enniebee Wants to Go

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

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.