Places Jesse B Wants to Go

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

The tragic death of 19-year-old Mabel Tainter in 1886 led to the construction of this unique Victorian-era theater in the northern woods of Wisconsin.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

This museum is dedicated to preserving Minnesota's lake culture through displays of vintage watercraft and rotating exhibits.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A large instrument played by the wind.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A granite primate with a view.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.