Places heathersfour Wants to Go

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

You don't have to be a diplomat to visit the so-called Camp David of the West.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

The decor of this Hollywood movie palace just barely predated the opening of King Tut's tomb.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

The last of its kind in the country.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

This former New Jersey bus now exists as a public art exhibit.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.