Places larrykay5zog Wants to Go

This world-class vineyard has a peculiar collection of contemporary sculptures scattered across the property.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

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

This Taoist temple is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

The cavern’s main chamber is so vast that the Statue of Liberty could reportedly fit inside it.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

The longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.