Places darrelmw Wants to Go

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

A six-story-tall golden pyramid, surrounded by a moat.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

Secret gardens just a few miles from downtown Atlanta.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.