Places Alex SF Wants to Go

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

Phoenix man has two yards full of vintage signs and antiques.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

This mesmerizing and surreal landscape features intricate patterns of white and red sandstone.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The design of this ornately decorated place of worship closely mirrors a church in Vietnam.

An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

An unexpected and peaceful oasis on a hillside.