Places Skurkey Wants to Go

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A Tibetan Temple and Buddhist organization just off the beaten path in Northern California.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.