Places rbowptown Wants to Go

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

Explore some of the most unique vehicles in history along with a cast of unsettling mannequins.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

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

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.