Places SL Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.