Places jcctrip Wants to Go

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.

Nevada's largest cactus collection stands outside a candy mogul's small factory.

This mostly abandoned shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Wheels of chrome by the thousands adorn this California Historical Landmark.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.