Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The mastermind behind this palatial hotel perished on the Titanic weeks before its grand opening.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

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

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

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

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

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

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

A dreamy mausoleum honors Persia's most famous poet.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.