Places fivepercentyak Wants to Go

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States. 

Despite monuments in other locations, this spot in a South Dakota field is recognized by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey as the center of the 50 states.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.