Places Skurkey Wants to Go

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the recently restored Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.

Mexican food and folk art.

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

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

The soulless eyes of 82 bronze children stare on forever in remembrance of a horrifying World War II massacre.

Massive installation of Europe's negative stereotypes.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.