Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

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

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.