Places nejuum Wants to Go

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

This odd California folly seems like it was almost designed to accumulate urban legends.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Antiques by the Bay.

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

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

The exterior of this home was used for the hit television show, The Brady Bunch.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."