Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.