Places joedissolvo Wants to Go

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

Alleyway plaque commemorating the death of a fictional character in The Maltese Falcon, not far from the author's home.

This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.