Places rmcmacki Wants to Go

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

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The Internet Age began with a transmission from this biker bar.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.