Places adnoid Wants to Go

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

An airy would-be solution to a housing shortage.

An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

A small sculpture garden that provides a microcosmic representation of California.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Hidden in a hotel parking lot is a strange historical plaque erected by an obscure fraternal society.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.