Places naomialper8 Wants to Go

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

Blink and you may miss this rustic pioneer cemetery.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

Fully ignoring any conventions of fine dining, chef Peter Vazquez turns out some of the best meals in the city in takeaway containers.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.