Places mischabarrow Wants to Go

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Built as a schoolhouse in 1914, this Mission-style building has also served as a dancehall, a library, an Army canteen, and now a cultural museum.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

This cheery fruit farmer welcomes visitors to a classic roadside emporium.

This 1950s-era nostalgic roadside New Mexico attraction consists of a quirky curio store and museum embedded into the face of a cave.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.