Places pennylemonade Wants to Go

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

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

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

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

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

Journey through a bit of nostalgia inside this classic record and video store.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.