Places mellauri Wants to Go

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

A commercial fishing boat stranded on the California coast.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

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

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Massive crater in central Oregon.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

An unfinished railroad project is now a hidden tunnel.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.