Places Irongoddess Wants to Go

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

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

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

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.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

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.

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

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

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

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.