Places lizzilzil Wants to Go

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

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

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

One man's love of natural beauty led to the creation of this hidden granite monument.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.