Places Volta1228 Wants to Go

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

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