Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

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

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Secret US military film studio in the Hollywood Hills.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

First LEED-certified gas station in the United States.

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

Because there's no place like home.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

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

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

From sax to spuds, get 'em all at this landmark music establishment.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.