Places thirstymaenad Wants to Go

Home to vintage vehicles and local artifacts, this museum also houses a rare taxidermy specimen.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

Hidden within the waterfront hills resides this dilapidated military stronghold.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

A monument stands at one of the starting lines of the Trans-Canada Highway, formerly the longest uninterrupted highway in the world.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

While these wooden totems bear a striking resemblance to First Nations artwork of British Columbia, their actual origins lay on the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean.

Canada’s longest cave system is home to creatures found nowhere else on the planet, as well as rare cave pearls.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

A miner’s death at the hands of strikebreaking company police sparks a labor movement that continues to the present day.

A beautiful waterfall and beach where precious stones are plentiful.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

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