Places Edward Denny Wants to Go

Seven ceramic sculptures are scattered around this California college campus.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

A free, public museum dedicated to the fascinating science of sight.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

Over 315,000 preserved amphibians and reptiles in jars.

Russian history in San Francisco.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.

This small town in Germany was once a center of peppermint production, and has the museum to prove it.