Places atlas2018 Wants to Go

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

This symbol of peace is appropriately positioned overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Honorable ranks graduating from the prestigious Army War College work hard to maintain their high standards of honor and erase those who don't.

The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world spans 14 lanes of traffic and six rail tracks, all while lighting up the night sky.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

A poignant museum dedicated to the history of the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation

An ever-updating collection of retro Americana.