Places P. G. P. Wants to Go

An out of this world experience.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

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

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

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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