Place to sleep: Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, California, United States

About this place:

Frank Lloyd Wright's monsterly over-ornamented extravaganza of a building where GATTACA was filmed...

If you need building permits in Marin or you have to fight a parking ticket or serve on a jury, undoubtedly, you will find yourself here. It's easy to make the best of it, the cafe has a fantastic retro, nostalgic feel. And the grounds are spatially phenomenal in an otherwise densely crowded county...