Places pollardld Wants to Go

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

San Francisco's most expensive hotel suite includes a secret passageway rumored to have been used by JFK.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

From mining complex to industrial exhibition, this museum once played a major part in the X-Files.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Founded in 1873 to support the needs of the gold mines flourishing nearby, this is the last water-powered foundry in the United States.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.