Places faunafrailty Wants to Go

The newsstand that never closes its doors—well, almost never.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Antiques by the Bay.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

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

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

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