Weird day trips from San Francisco
The strangest San Francisco finds are often a short drive out. These 7 day trips — Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, Watercourse Way and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.
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Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary
You lie down in a redwood tub and get buried up to your neck in a warm, springy mound of cedar fiber and rice…
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Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Housed in a temple modeled on Karnak in San Jose's Rosicrucian Park, this is the largest collection of Egypti…
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Watercourse Way
Instead of one communal pool, this bathhouse rents out individually themed private rooms — One Pine, Two Ston…
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Fremont Peak Observatory Star Parties
Up an 11-mile stretch of winding San Juan Canyon Road sits a volunteer-run observatory housing the 30-inch Ch…
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Bioluminescence Night Kayak Tour, Tomales Bay
Blue Waters Kayaking launches tandem kayaks after sunset — timed so both sun and moon are down — into a bay w…
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Enriquita Mine
The Enriquita Mine was a historic cinnabar mine established in 1859 as part of the massive New Almaden mercur…
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Old Lime Kiln Ruins
Tucked away in the redwood forest of the Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, these massive,…