Places carinageraldez Wants to Go

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

Grab a latte at the birthplace of modern American skateboarding.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.