Places inthenavey Wants to Go

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

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

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

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.