Places jamesface Wants to Go

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.