Places hunsicker Wants to Go

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.

This small oasis of flora and art was created in remembrance of a local auto business owner.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

A series of murals depict the evolution of plant life from the Precambrian to the modern day.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.