Places cait7911 Wants to Go

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.