Places Jessfrawg Wants to Go

One of the smallest parks in San Francisco honors the legacy of the "Mother of Civil Rights in California."

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Where a demonstration led to equal rights for one of California's most marginalized communities.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

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

The overgrown remains of a folly temple/playhouse, in an unmaintained section of a Dupage County Forest Preserve.

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

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

This restored farmhouse is a time capsule of a 19th-century Colorado homestead.

According to local legend, a tree grew from the stake that killed this alleged vampire. In reality, he probably died from influenza.

Antique automobiles, phonographs, organs, and farm equipment.

The world's largest sticker ball weighs in at a mighty 231 pounds.