Places Ramika Wants to Go

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

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.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

Junkbots and mud babies are the masterpieces in this fantastically sci-fi art museum.

Across Ring Mountain is a vast collection of Native American petroglyphs unique to the region.