Places kmannan Wants to Go

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

The only known remains of an extensive Maori settlement are preserved underneath an apartment building.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

This graveyard is the eternal home of many brave pioneers who settled the Great Northwest.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.