Places jorrick Wants to Go

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

This secluded date farm can be reached only by following a bumpy, single-lane desert road.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

A non-native grove of 241 redwoods in Southern California.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Wayne Newton's sprawling estate is now open for visitors to catch a glimpse of his "heart and soul."

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.