Places jenhaas Wants to Go

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Antiques by the Bay.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

An ominous concrete cube cuts a dystopian silhouette atop this California mountain.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The 606 is a decade in the making.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.