Places zride1905 Wants to Go

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

The diverse and sometimes odd cultural heritage of the Golden State is collected, examined, and displayed in this proud museum.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

Reverend Franzo Wayne King administers spiritual enlightenment through the music of the jazz legend.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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