Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Apple memorabilia in an undisclosed warehouse, hidden for undisclosed reasons.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.