Places engelhardus Wants to Go

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

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

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.