Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

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

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.