Places JoeBenSimo Wants to Go

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

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

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

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

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

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

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

This simple highway curve has become a comedic pilgrimage site.

The so-called "Bridge of Thighs" in Palm Springs allows nudists to discreetly cross the road.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

The state's only comprehensive museum dedicated to the mineral that defined its history and economy.