Places leilat Wants to Go

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.

The former home of Lillian Evans Tibbs and her grandson, Thurlow Evans Tibbs Jr., whose prodigious contributions to music and art spanned more than 90 years.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Also known as the Founding Church of Scientology.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Half of a house.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.