Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

A performance hall at the American Jewish University moonlights as a sci-fi film location set.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

According to legend it was a nap taken under this tree that kicked off the California Gold Rush.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

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

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

The world's longest known cave system.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.