Places embeekrais Wants to Go

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

An abandoned 1920s-era stretch of cabins now overshadowed by the 66 Motel.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A Los Angeles cemetery that was once at the center of a Supreme Court dispute.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

This bizarre hotel on historic Route 66 has been plagued by rumors of paranormal activity.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

An Italian restaurant became a rock-and-roll hangout and the lair of the "Hollywood vampires."

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.