Places emileedanielson Wants to Go

The oldest county library in the United States.

An old brick section of the original Lincoln Highway in a quiet neighborhood outside of town.

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The revival of a classic Art Deco theater.

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

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

A large instrument played by the wind.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

Wander down a side street dedicated to one of the members of the Beat Generation.

Part mural and part sculpture, this work of art sits in the middle of the Promenade, as if swimming in a river of asphalt towards the ocean.