Places Shady Lady Wants to Go

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

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

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

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

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

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

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

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