Places cconway7 Wants to Go

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

What started as a way to address damp basement walls turned into a house filled with intricate hand-carved designs.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

The former headquarters of a leader in the Mexican Revolution, and the site of an often-reproduced image.

Monumental paintings, discovered in a Mexican cathedral in 1957, depict the deaths of some friars in Japan.

An incredible little museum of interior design full of artifacts collected from around the world.

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

An unlikely neo-Gothic castle in the Paraguayan countryside.