Places jtraceychristian Wants to Go

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

At 32 feet long, this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some.

America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

Despite being a perfectly pleasant place to be, Loyalton can't seem to attract any visitors.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

The artwork that Italians felt California didn't deserve.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

Oldest building in California still in use.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.