Places Falcata Wants to Go

Internationally-recognized arts center housed in a century-old former military barracks.

One man's love of natural beauty led to the creation of this hidden granite monument.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

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

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.