Places scottjung Wants to Go

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

The legacy of baseball great Roberto Clemente is preserved in a retired Pittsburgh fire station.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

One of the oldest of its kind.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

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

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

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

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

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