Places Elise Wants to Go

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

Rare and strange weather predictors, from mercury barometers to leech prognosticators.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Hauled from the water's depths, Henry VIII's flagship is preserved in this capsule-shaped museum.

Outsider Art Community.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

Sculpture park built by a 50-year-old widow.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.