Places evretrogrrl Wants to Go

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

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

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

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

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

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

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

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

An old-timey peepshow allows visitors to gawk at some of the world's most freakishly large footwear.