Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Historical trolley restoration and operation at History San Jose, Kelly Park.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

An abandoned, unfinished mansion on grounds strewn with lava rocks.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.