Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

An offbeat angle on the ocean viewed through an antiquated lens.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

A volcanic landmark located on an Ice age lake bed.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

Trek up to an abandoned fire lookout from the 1930s for an unimpeded view.

Supplies are schlepped up by llamas at this century-old inn, accessible only by hiking trails in the Great Smokies.

This spectacular fault escarpment, a popular hang-glider launch point, extends some 30 miles long and towers about 2,500 feet over the valley floors to the west.

A remote trail traverses the little-known Gearhart Mountains of southern Oregon.

The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

The worst road in Colorado is the main gateway to some of its highest peaks.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

This Late Gothic building that once housed Erasmus is now known as the filming location of "Suspiria."

This Art Nouveau mansion was used as the "House of the Screaming Child" in Dario Argento’s giallo classic.

This chest hospital with a dark, haunted past serves as a fitting set for horror films and a paradise for ghost hunters.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

A remote one-room schoolhouse on Catalina Island, once a lifeline for local children, now abandoned.

One of the northernmost occurrences of western juniper can be found in the sand dunes of Washington's Palouse.