Places johncterryc Wants to Go

A Cold War site complete with rusty structures, hiking trails, and beautiful views.

Los Angeles's oldest cemetery allows visitors to trace the history of this proud city.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

This rock in the middle of a river in Jayuya contains dozens of Pre-Columbian Taíno petroglyphs.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A mysterious, ancient collection of pre-Hispanic petroglyphs hidden deep in the Mexican desert.

Dine on ceviche tacos in the sea at this floating restaurant only accessible by boat.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

One of two electrical towers in Germany that have a pathway constructed through the tower's legs.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

A large sculptural artwork and garden in Escondido, California.

This Pringle-shaped ledge makes for the perfect photo op.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.