Places lisanottingham Wants to Go

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

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

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

The oldest Naval cemetery on the West Coast.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.