Places Hheeaatthh Wants to Go

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

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

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.