Places tstriegel Wants to Go

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.