Places DustyRags Wants to Go

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Antiques by the Bay.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

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