Places Astrogirl89 Wants to Go

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Meet 'Big Josh,' the 20-foot-tall muffler man.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

A magnificent, reportedly haunted mansion built for a composer by Spiritualists.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

An unexpected and peaceful oasis on a hillside.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

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

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

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