Places skdewberry Wants to Go

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

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

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

The longest continuously operating Elk's Lodge in the country.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This sailor's boneyard was lost under a parking lot for decades before being rediscovered.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

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