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36.5997, -121.8881
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36.0839, -88.7616
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Ngong Ping, Hong Kong
Tian Tan Buddha
Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.
22.2526, 113.8997
Mammoth Lakes, California
Devils Postpile National Monument
Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.
37.6501, -119.0740
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's Peregrine Falcons
Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.
37.7915, -122.3959
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
37.8267, -122.4230
San Francisco, California
Exploratorium
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
37.8017, -122.3973
San Francisco, California
The Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
37.8021, -122.4039
San Francisco, California
Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship
A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.
37.7937, -122.3919
Alameda, California
St. George Spirits
One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.
37.7876, -122.3097
San Francisco, California
Treasure Island
A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.
37.8160, -122.3713
Las Vegas, Nevada
'Bliss Dance'
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
36.1036, -115.1747
San Francisco, California
Westin St. Francis Hotel
Only hotel where you can legally launder money.
37.7877, -122.4086
San Francisco, California
Bourbon & Branch
A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.
37.7858, -122.4130
San Francisco, California
Defenestration
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
37.7794, -122.4072
San Francisco, California
The Golden Fire Hydrant
The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.
37.7580, -122.4279
San Francisco, California
Paxton Gate
A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.
37.7596, -122.4217
San Francisco, California
The Pirate Supply Store at 826 Valencia
An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.
37.7596, -122.4214
San Francisco, California
Musée Mécanique
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
37.8093, -122.4159
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