Places Vaevin Wants to Go

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

This Greek temple, open only an hour a day, was the site of a war of tastes between an architect and an artist.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

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

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

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

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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