Places LiliCurtis Wants to Go

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

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

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Half of a house.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

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

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

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.