Places nickblossom Wants to Go

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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