Places SoCal Creature Wants to Go

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

San Francisco’s condensed garden of incredible plant growth.

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

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

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

A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.