Places clhooper60 Wants to Go

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This San Diego museum is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

The freeway that never was.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.

An iron monument on the 120th meridian as surveyed, one of only four marking the boundary between Nevada and California north of Lake Tahoe.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An early 20th-century fire lookout, still in intermittent use, preserves legacy fire-locating equipment.

A granite primate with a view.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

What once housed a private club catering to Comstock Lode elite is now considered one of the West’s most haunted spaces.

This larger-than-life portrait in Nevada's silver boomtown is decorated with over 3,000 silver dollars.

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

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

This lucky stone from Ireland is embedded on the corner of a Reno casino to grant luck