Places MikeInSanFrancisco Wants to Go

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Complex aquaponics systems allow fish and plants to grow in harmony.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

Ask nicely, and stewards of a centuries-old charitable tradition will give you free bread and beer.

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The world's only known button museum.

This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.