Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

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

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.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.