Places mpieraldi Wants to Go

Successful artist residence program has filled this ranch with dozens of sculptures over the years.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

A fine mixture of the old and the new topped with an art deco neon spire.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.