Places jilliangbradshaw5 Wants to Go

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

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

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

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.