Places Pengwn Wants to Go

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

This beautiful Victorian ironwork masterpiece was built to keep London from smelling like poop.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A student driver's nightmare.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.