Places Aty Trocious Wants to Go

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

You'd never know the houses at 23-24 Leinster Gardens were fakes—until you see the train tracks on the other side.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

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

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.