Places Russell Nelson Wants to Go

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

Gander at model satellites and telescopes in this scientific lobby.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Eight huge lanterns lining a city street can change color on command.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

The black lab that was voted mayor of a California town is forever remembered by a life-size statue.

100 years of rolling bus history and Hollywood cameos.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Luminaries of all stripes have sipped strong Greek coffee at this cafe since 1839.