Places JoeBenSimo Wants to Go

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

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

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

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

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

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