Places kathrynkef Wants to Go

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.

A 400-square foot model of historic Quebec is the playing field for a state of the art light and sound show.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

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.

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.