Places rreodc Wants to Go

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

A high point in Vancouver kitsch.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

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

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.