Places tarahooks Wants to Go

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

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

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

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

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

What better place to take a seat?