Places gardnermcelroy Wants to Go

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Pick up all of the cosmic knick-knacks under the sun or take a creative writing course, all offered in this novelty storefront.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

The highest point in Nevada had to be decided by court order after California tried to claim it as their own.