Places jaysutton79 Wants to Go

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This "Plant Farm Museum" is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Underground monastery and fortress.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.