Places Cruxall Wants to Go

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Ride on a fully-restored Nike nuclear-tipped missile elevator from the Cold War.

The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.