Places tchia Wants to Go

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

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

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

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

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Russian history in San Francisco.

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

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

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

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