Places Lefteris Wants to Go

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

Fans have made a utility pole near where the 90s musician was shot into an ersatz memorial.

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

A surreal, interdimensional shopping center and portal to another universe by Meow Wolf.

A tiny slice shop hides down an unmarked hallway in a Las Vegas casino.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.