Places marksuz Wants to Go

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

A classically inspired temple in Redwood City.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

A classic American barn that was the home of a classic American television star.

This stately structure has been abandoned for half a century.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.