Places gdm584 Wants to Go

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

Playable, historic pinball machines fill this Alameda museum.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.