Places varmicon Wants to Go

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

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

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

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

After serving in World War II and picking up Apollo astronauts, this aircraft carrier has been turned into a museum overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

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

Antiques by the Bay.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.