Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

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

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.