Places used2lovesnowstorms Wants to Go

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

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

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.