Places stwp Wants to Go

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

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

This lonely gas station has stood at this location since 1917.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

This set of three large, volcanic hot springs is a favorite haunt for intrepid divers.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.