Places elinar Wants to Go

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

The largest drain hole in the world.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.