Places lessymac Wants to Go

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

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

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

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

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

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

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

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.