Places empace Wants to Go

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Russian history in San Francisco.

A 1920s home transformed into an immersive art experience, where every room is a portal to another realm.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

This Turkish cave boasts some rather bizarre associations with the King of Mount Olympus.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.