Places sierrawest Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

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

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

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

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

Longtime headquarters of controversial boys' club for the world's wealthiest and most powerful.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

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

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

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

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

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

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

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A gap in the concrete has been transformed into a miniature playground for the mind.