Places Merlucdai Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

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

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

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.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.