Places cl94 Wants to Go

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A miniature train theme park, free to the public, laying at the base of the Santa Monica Mountains.

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

On the edge of this small Washington Park, a piece of the Earth's mantle has come to the surface.

Although it also features red, orange, and variegated cliffs of Navajo Sandstone, this state park is often overshadowed by its more famous neighbor.

This sandstone building is a relic of the Overland Trail.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

A burial site located in the middle of a road.

Ruins of the original wooden flume that carried water to Virginia City are still visible high on the Virginia Range.

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.