Places flint Wants to Go

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A museum dedicated to celebrating the humble wingnut.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

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

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

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