Places cconway7 Wants to Go

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

The fierce beast perches atop a pedestal marking where the historic City of London gates once stood.

An artist’s underground sanctuary, 40 years in the making.

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.