Places reeserich Wants to Go

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

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

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

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

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

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A modern frieze of ancient Grecian mythological figures playing a national pastime.

Where a demonstration led to equal rights for one of California's most marginalized communities.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

Murals of the wild parties once held on the frozen River Thames.

The ground on which Shakespeare’s initial playhouse once stood.

The location Geoffrey Chaucer and tale-telling pilgrims set off for Canterbury in April 1386.

Stone carvings celebrate the legacy of a now-defunct theatre.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

An eccentric Victorian aristocrat's enormous collection of medieval armor and weapons from around the world.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This landmark church concealed a crypt packed with bones that was discovered thanks to the London Blitz.