Places amandahagar Wants to Go

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Standing guard on top of an old, vacant ice cream shop.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This feline raises a friendly paw at drivers barreling toward the freeway.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This is one really big nut.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

A store that sells all manner of bones, insects, and animal curiosities.