Places Falcata Wants to Go

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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

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

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

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

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.