Places KWStrouse Wants to Go

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

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

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'

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

Arcadia is home to a haven for nature geeks and 80s TV lovers alike.