Places stoneyb Wants to Go

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

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

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

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

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

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

Half of a house.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

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

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

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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