Places Vincent van Broadbent Wants to Go

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.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

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

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

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

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

Self-sufficient greenhouse floating on the Hudson River.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

This revered mutant tree was felled in an act of ecoterrorism leaving a legacy of myth and possibly murder.

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

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

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

An illegally built ramshackle mansion tucked in the middle of Brooklyn is now being turned into condominiums.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.