Mark Zuckerberg lived in suite H-33 of Harvard University’s Kirkland House. He created the early Facebook website here in 2004 while in his sophomore year. Read more...
Frenchman’s Tower on Old Page Mill Road in Palo Alto is a doorless red brick folly built in 1875 by Frenchman Paulin Caperon, also known as Peter Coutts. Now empty, with windows bricked-up after years of vandalism, the tower reportedly once housed his library on the first floor and a water tank on the second floor for irrigation. The land is now Read more...
The National Debt Clock in New York is on a wall near the Stephen Sondheim Theater, at the entrance to the covered passageway connecting 43rd and 42nd streets between Broadway and 6th Avenue. The digital billboard, operated by the Durst Organization, displays the current United States gross national debt. Read more...
Cyclists can use the Pikes Peak Highway during normal operating hours and tollgate fees apply. It is a grueling climb up a winding paved road to the summit at 14,110 feet, and the weather can be cold and inclement even in Summer. Pikes Peak Highway is open year-round, weather permitting, except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Read more...
You can bike around Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid) on a route that uses a cycle path and public highway. Follow the A494 from the lake car park to Llanuwchllyn, returning to Bala on the B4403 road that tracks the steam railway line. The 10 mile circuit has some inclines and takes an hour at a moderate pace. Read more...
Commercial production of dynamite in the US started in 1868 at the Giant Powder Works near the site of what is now Glen Park Recreation Center in San Francisco. Producing dynamite under licence from Alfred Nobel, the short-lived factory was destroyed in an explosion in November 1869. Read more...
The bronze statue of Yoda sits on a fountain at the Lucasfilm campus in San Francisco’s Presidio. The fountain is outside Building B at One Letterman Drive, where other Star Wars memorabilia can also be viewed in the lobby during weekdays. Read more...
Muir Woods has chargeable parking which must be booked in advance online or by phone for a specific 30 minute arrival window. You can park until closing and it is advisable to print or download your reservation beforehand as there is no wi-fi or cell phone coverage nearby. Read more...
Drawn Stone by Andy Goldsworthy is at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The permanent outdoor sculpture is a man-made meandering crack that runs through pavers and large sandstone boulders leading to the museum’s entrance. Read more...
The famous Painted Ladies in San Francisco are located at 710 to 720 Steiner Street, opposite Alamo Square Park in the Western Addition. The name was given to the iconic row of Queen Anne style houses in the 1970s due to their colorfully painted facades. Read more...
The house from the movie Mrs Doubtfire is located at 2640 Steiner Street in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood. It was used for exterior shots as the home of the Hillard family in the 1993 film starring Robin Williams. Read more...
The North Face was founded in San Francisco as a ski, camping and mountaineering mail order business in 1964. The Grateful Dead played at the official opening of its first store at 308 Columbus Avenue in San Francisco’s North Beach on October 26, 1966. Read more...
Castro Camera, Harvey Milk’s camera store in San Francisco’s Castro District, was located at 575 Castro Street between 18th and 19th Street. Milk operated the store from 1972 until his assassination in 1978 and lived in the apartment above the premises. Read more...
The Campanile at Berkeley, also known as the Sather Tower, is 307 feet (or 94 meters) tall. Completed in 1915, the Gothic Revival-style tower, designed by architect John Galen Howard, is the tallest structure on the UC Berkeley campus and is the third-tallest clock and bell tower in the world. The tower’s observation platform is located at the 200-foot level. Read more...
The giant electrical wall outlet, plug and cord sculpture is on the side of the PG&E substation on 1st Street and D Street in Petaluma. When the 1920s building was refurbished in 2015, the utility company commissioned Joel Jones of Basal Ganglia Studio to design the sculptural installation for the outside wall which was made from steel and fiberglass by Read more...
The Facebook sign with the iconic thumbs up symbol is located outside the company’s headquarters at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park. On the reverse is the original sign of Sun Microsystems, who substantially vacated the site in 2010. Read more...
The Seattle Seahawks NFL football team plays its home games at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. The stadium has been the home field of the Seahawks since it opened in 2002 and it is shared with the Seattle Sounders FC MLS soccer team. Lumen Field is considered one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL, having Read more...