Places riedermarcus Wants to Go

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Half of a house.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

Condemned US Navy seaplane control tower turned officers’ club sits atop Yerba Buena Island.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

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

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Showing films since the silent era of the 1920s, it is now the last movie house in downtown Newport.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The legendary wooden horse that stands in modern Troy is a prop from the 2004 Wolfgang Petersen film.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.