Places P. G. P. Wants to Go

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Come for the records, stay for the retro pinball machines.

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

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

Handmade treasures from around the world.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

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

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

Hidden in the rain-forests of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India lies the village of Ziro, home to the Apatanis.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.