Places kari27ulrich Wants to Go

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

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

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

Once part of a chain of over 80 restaurants that merged with another Mexican-American chain, it has been reborn in one of its original locations.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Formally known as American Statesmanship Park, this roadside collection of eighteen-foot presidential busts and Texas statesmen is located only minutes away from the former studio of Houston sculptor David Adickes.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Santa Monica is one of the world's longest, most beautiful, and least developed beaches: just white sand for miles, a single beach shack, and the concrete shell of an abandoned resort that never got past its foundations.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

A gallery displaying the psychedelic-fueled art of the indigenous Huichol people.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

6th century Byzantine mosaics preserved on a hill overlooking Lake Ohrid.

A large kangaroo sculpture on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.