Places SelinSari Wants to Go

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Half of a house.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.