Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

The first mural ever dedicated to the women of the Black Panther Party.

The famous blue house from the classic horror film "Halloween" is now a local landmark.

The first fresco Diego Rivera painted in the United States can be found in the former San Francisco Stock Exchange.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

Large but largely ignored, these 42 life-size Liberty Bell replicas were a peculiar, unexplained feature on the facade of a Macy's department store.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

The only remains of a 1918 section of Route 30.