Places Elise Wants to Go

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

Home of the "true" equator.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

Seoul amusement park boasts a Korean-speaking pachyderm.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

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

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."