Places eliasirving Wants to Go

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

"The greatest unknown literary treasure in Los Angeles."

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

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

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

Three nine-foot-tall bathing beauties perched elegantly on life-rings welcome visitors to the Alki waterfront.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.