Euphor!um

By Chris Taylor

Mixing a maze with modern technology, this San Francisco installation sensation simulates Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous hallucinatory dream, the one that brought the world Kubla Khan. Donning a Plexiglas helmet and carrying an MP3 digital music player, visitors stumble along in deliberate disorientation beside Alph, the sacred river that leads to a stately pleasure dome. Creator Chris Hardman's sellout show is the hippest legal high on the West Coast.

--By Chris Taylor