Places Opinicus Wants to Go

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

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

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.

Half of a house.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.