Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

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

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The largest drain hole in the world.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.