Places BeerAndLoathing Wants to Go

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

Traditional, pre-Hispanic food is served alongside classic favorites in this family-owned Mexican restaurant.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

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

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

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

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This cannonball embedded in the side of an Edinburgh house once served a surprisingly pedestrian purpose.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

Near the state border, cars seem to defy the laws of physics by rolling uphill.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.