Places nicholecoop1017 Wants to Go

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

Beautiful stained glass depictions of the history of human flight fill this surprising chapel.

A small structure built from used railroad ties honors the short term of America's 20th president.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

Memorial built in 1922 in remembrance of WWI casualties.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.