Places Elise Wants to Go

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

This well-traveled chess park offers scenic views of the pacific and a colorful, eclectic clientele.

An homage to the man who built California's version of Venice.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An underwater city for the dead.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.