Places Kevin OKeeffe Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

An eclectic assortment of medieval architecture in a small Iowa town.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

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

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.

A remarkably intact castle that once was the largest in Ireland.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."