Places AMischiefManaged Wants to Go

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

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

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

A large instrument played by the wind.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).