Places Cindy Cesare Wants to Go

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

This abandoned church dominates the landscape of a former mining boomtown.

The world's largest collection of ship figureheads includes figures from legends and history alike, from Sir Lancelot to Abraham Lincoln.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

An urban laboratory.

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.