Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.