Places mondayscribe Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

Russian history in San Francisco.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Get a taste of Chamorro cuisine, family-style, at this popular restaurant.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

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

A studio and gallery bursting with thousands of artworks by artists with disabilities.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

A Berkeley sidewalk etched with 128 cast-iron poems.