Places paul8998 Wants to Go

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

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

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

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

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

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

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.