Places JoeBenSimo Wants to Go

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

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

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.