Places goldelinemydear Wants to Go

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

Seemingly straight out of a fairy tale, a steel chair sits on a tiny island only accessible by stepping stones.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

An indigenous ethnobotanist runs this brunch spot celebrating Australia’s native flavors.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

This arts and culture cultural center explores the diverse cultural heritage of the American West.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

A geothermal energy project gone wrong is fracturing the city's picturesque architecture.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Near this allegedly haunted pub, you can find strong spirits on the rocks.

Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.