Places limikoleit Wants to Go

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A whimsical tower with a spiral staircase, inspired by the Space Age and the Möbius strip.

While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.