Places tchia Wants to Go

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

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

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.