Places Universoul Wants to Go

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

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

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

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

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.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.