Places carmelaland Wants to Go

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A whimsical menagerie of devils, krampuses, satyrs, and other horned creatures.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.