Places valinda Wants to Go

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

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

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

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.