Places keri125 Wants to Go

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

The magic's in the hole!

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.