Places cmkrdonahue Wants to Go

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

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

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

The Wonder Road aka Doobie Lane, a mile-long strip of dirt road filled with folk art.

Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Mine your own precious stones.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.